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Representative James Ruckman Bailey View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 8/20/1880
Birth Place: Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Assemblies Served:
House: 1 (1846)
Home County: Jefferson
James Ruckman Bailey
Jefferson County
James Ruckman Bailey was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in May 1818. He married Ann Henderson in Adams County, Illinois, in 1841. They had nine children. By 1856 they had moved to Jacksonville, Illinois, where he was the editor and printer of the Jacksonville Sentinel. After Ann's death in 1860, he married Mary Williams and they had five children. He died in Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1880.
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House District 9
Committees
1st GA (1846)
Standing Committees
Legislation Sponsored
1st GA (1846)