Ralph Emerson Bailey (July 14, 1878 – April 8, 1948) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a

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from

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from 1925 to 1927.

Biography

Born in

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, Bailey moved to Illinois with his parents, who settled in Benton, Franklin County, in 1880. He attended the graded and high schools at Benton. He moved to

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, in 1897. He graduated from the Southeast Missouri Teachers' College (now

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) at Cape Girardeau in 1901. He soon took a special course at the

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. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1907 and commenced practice in

. He moved to

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in 1910 and continued the practice of law. He served as City attorney in 1912–1914 and again in 1918–1922. He served as a member of the board of regents of the Southeast Missouri Teachers' College.

Congress

Bailey was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1927). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress.

Later career and death

He resumed the practice of law in

. He died in

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, April 8, 1948. He was interred in the City Cemetery,

References

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