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Baily, Joseph

manufacturer, congressman, was born March 18, 1810, on the Brandywine battleground, Chester county, Pa. From 1839 to 1845 he represented his native county in both branches of the legislature; and from 1850 to 1854 represented Perry county in the state senate; in 1854 he was treasurer of the state of Pennsylvania; and in 1860 was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-seventh congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress. He was one of the twelve democrats in congress who voted for the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.

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