Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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Bailey, Ralph Emerson

Bailey, Ralph Emerson, a Representative from Missouri; born in Cainsville, Harrison County, Mo., July 14, 1878; moved to Illinois with his parents, who settled in Benton, Franklin County, in 1880; attended the graded and high schools at Benton; moved to Bloomfield, Stoddard County, Mo., in 1897; was graduated from the Southeast Missouri Teachers’ College at Cape Girardeau in 1901; afterwards took a special course in the University of Missouri at Columbia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1907 and commenced practice in Bloomfield, Mo.; moved to Sikeston, Scott County, Mo., in 1910 and continued the practice of law; city attorney 1912-1914 and again 1918-1922; member of the board of regents of the Southeast Missouri Teachers’ College since 1923; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); was not a candidate for renomination in 1926; resumed the practice of law in Sikeston, Mo.; died in Cape Girardeau, Mo., April 8, 1948; interment in the City Cemetery, Sikeston, Mo.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Bailey, Ralph Emerson," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.804 Original Sources, accessed December 1, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3TS8YMED91NUN5D.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Bailey, Ralph Emerson." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.804, Original Sources. 1 Dec. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3TS8YMED91NUN5D.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Bailey, Ralph Emerson' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.804. Original Sources, retrieved 1 December 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3TS8YMED91NUN5D.