John Hailey (August 29, 1835 – April 10, 1921) was an American politician who served as a Congressional Delegate from Idaho Territory.
Biography
Hailey was born in Smith County, Tennessee, and attended the public schools. Of Scottish ancestry, his grandfather, Philip Hailey, and his father, John Hailey, were both natives of Virginia. His father married Miss Nancy Baird, a native of Tennessee, the daughter of Captain Josiah Baird, who had been a captain in the War of 1812.[2]
Hailey was elected mayor of Boise, Idaho Territory, in 1871 but never took office.[4] He was elected as a Delegate to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1874.
From 1877 to 1879, Hailey was a county commissioner for Ada County, and from 1880 to 1881, he represented Ada and Washington Counties on the Idaho Territorial Council, serving as its president. In 1884, Hailey was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887), and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress. From 1891 to 1893, he served as a county commissioner for Logan County.[5]
Later life
He was appointed warden of the Idaho State Penitentiary in 1899. In 1907, upon the founding of the Historical Society of the State of Idaho, Hailey was made its first secretary and librarian.[6] In 1910, as secretary and librarian, Hailey wrote a history of the state at the request of the legislature.[7]
^Curtis, George H.; Wells, Merle (1944). "The Political Founders of Idaho". Twenty-Seventh Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of Idaho. pp. 59–77.
^John H. Hawley, Eighth Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of the State Historical Society of Idaho, Idaho State Historical Society, Boise Idaho (1922).
^John Hailey, History of Idaho, Syms-York Company, Boise, Idaho (1910).
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