Facts: - imagesize: 250px - death place: dorchester , massachusetts - preceded: francis baylies - party: adams-clay republican - death date: june 26 , 1835 - district: 10th - term end: march 3 , 1831 - succeeded: henry a. s. dearborn - term start: december 13 , 1824 - state: massachusetts - name: john bailey - birth date: 1786 - birth place: stoughton , massachusetts Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john bailey -lrb- massachusetts -rrb- .
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john bailey -lrb- 1786 -- june 26 , 1835 -rrb- was a member of the united states house of representatives from massachusetts .born in stoughton , massachusetts -lrb- in that part of stoughton which later became canton -rrb- .bailey graduated from brown university in 1807 .bailey worked as a tutor and librarian in providence , rhode island from 1807 until 1814 .bailey was elected to the massachusetts house of representatives and served from 1814 to 1817 ; he served as a clerk in the department of state in washington , d.c. from 1817 until 1823 .bailey was elected a member of the american antiquarian society in 1816 .bailey presented credentials as a member-elect to the eighteenth congress , but his election was contested on residency requirements .a house resolution on march 18 , 1824 declared he was not entitled to the seat .upon returning to canton , bailey was elected as an adams-clay republican ; his subsequent re-elections allowed him to serve the nineteenth and twentieth congresses .during his tenure bailey chaired the committee on expenditures in the department of state .bailey ran as an anti-jacksonian in the twenty-first congress but was not a candidate for renomination in 1830 .he was a member of the massachusetts state senate , 1831 -- 1834 and ran as the unsuccessful anti-masonic candidate for governor of massachusetts in 1834 .he died in dorchester , massachusetts the following year .