{{Short description|American politician}} {{one source|date=June 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Goldsmith Fox Bailey | image = Goldsmith Bailey.png | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = [[Massachusetts's 9th congressional district|9th]] | term_start = March 4, 1861 | term_end = May 8, 1862 | preceded = [[Eli Thayer]] | succeeded = [[Amasa Walker]] | birth_date = July 17, 1823 | birth_place = [[Westmoreland, New Hampshire|East Westmoreland, New Hampshire]], US | death_date = {{death date and age|1862|5|8|1823|7|17}} | death_place = [[Fitchburg, Massachusetts]], US | party = | spouse = Sophia Bailey | relations = | children = | occupation = Printer editor and publisher (up to 1848) | profession = Attorney (admitted to the bar in 1848) | order2 = Member of the Fitchburg School Committee | term_start2 = 1849 | term_end2 = 1854 | order3 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term3 = 1857 | order4 = Member of the [[Massachusetts State Senate]] | term_start4 = 1858 | term_end4 = 1860 }}
'''Goldsmith Fox Bailey''' (July 17, 1823 – May 8, 1862) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].
Born in [[Westmoreland, New Hampshire|East Westmoreland, New Hampshire]], when he was three years old, his widowed mother moved with him to Fitchburg.<ref name="emerson"/>
Bailey attended the public schools of [[Fitchburg, Massachusetts]]. When he was 17 Bailey started work as an apprentice for the ''Bellows Falls Gazette''. By 1844 Bailey became editor and publisher of the newspaper.<ref name="emerson"/>
In 1845 Bailey began to study law, first with William C. Bradley in [[Westminster, Vermont]], and later with the firm of Torrey and Wood in Fitchburg.<ref name="emerson">{{Citation|last=Emerson|first=William Andrew|title=Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Past and Present|page=284|publisher=Press of Blanchard & Brown|location=Fitchburg, MA|year=1887|hdl=2027/loc.ark:/13960/t5db8626n|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
Bailey was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in 1848 and commenced practice in [[Fitchburg, Massachusetts]], as a partner in the law firm of N. Wood & Co.<ref name="emerson"/>
Bailey served on the Fitchburg, Massachusetts school committee from 1849 to 1854. He was appointed postmaster of Fitchburg on May 3, 1851, and served until May 4, 1853, when his successor was appointed. Bailey served as member of the [[Massachusetts house of representatives]] in 1857. He served in the Massachusetts State Senate 1858–60. Bailey was the Republican Party candidate for congress in Massachusetts' ninth congressional district in the 1860 election.<ref name="emerson"/>
Bailey was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[37th United States Congress|Thirty-seventh]] Congress and served from March 4, 1861, until his death in [[Fitchburg, Massachusetts]], May 8, 1862. He was interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery, with a [[cenotaph]] at the [[Congressional Cemetery]].
==See also== *[[List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1790–1899)]]
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==External links== {{CongBio|B000038}} {{Bioguide}}
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