Warren Worth Bailey

Democrat Representative of Pennsylvania's 19th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

January 8, 1855 (73 years old)

Birthday

November 9, 1928

Death

Served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Was a Georgist publisher and played a significant role in framing the U.S. income tax law of 1916, focusing on exempting labor income and targeting land rent
Born in New Winchester, Indiana, and moved to Illinois in 1863
Worked as a telegrapher until 1875 before entering the newspaper industry
Engaged in the publishing business with his brother and later worked for the Chicago Daily News and the Evening Mail
Moved to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1893 and published the Jonestown Democrat, promoting the single-tax principle
Unsuccessful in his initial political bid in 1906 but was elected to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses
Served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Mileage and the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice
Unsuccessful in reelection bids in 1916, 1920, 1922, and 1926, and also unsuccessfully contested the election of Anderson Howell Walters to the Sixty-ninth Congress
Resumed his journalism career in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1928