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Josiah William Bailey (September 14, 1873 – December 15, 1946) was an American politician who served as a U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina from 1931 to 1946.
Josiah Bailey was a leading figure in North Carolina’s progressive movement in the early twentieth century. In the 1930s and 1940s, he served as a Democratic U.S. Senator from North Carolina and co-authored the “conservative manifesto,” which defended fiscally conservative policy during the heyday of the New Deal.
In 1937, U.S. Senator Josiah Bailey of North Carolina was concerned that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal programs were leading America and North Carolina down the road to collectivism.
As a die-hard conservative, Senator Bailey had clashed early and often in his career with Josephus Daniels, the equally die-hard progressive editor of the N&O.
Jun 24, 2017 · Most people have never heard of Josiah Bailey of North Carolina. He was one of the few voices railing against the excesses of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and helped author “The Conservative...
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had many fans, but North Carolina Senator Josiah Bailey, an author of the Conservative Manifesto of 1937, was not one. In a letter to anti-New Dealer Senator Peter G. Gerry of Rhode Island, Bailey wrote, “Our President is not actuated by principle, but by fears.
Josiah William Bailey, U.S. senator, was born in Warrenton, the second son and third of five children of Christopher Thomas and Annie Sarah (Bailey) Bailey. He grew up in Raleigh, where his father edited the Biblical Recorder, the official weekly newspaper of the North Carolina Baptist Convention.
This presidential proposal did more to galvanize conservative opposition to the New Deal than any other single event. And the man who did more than anyone else to rally the congressional opposition was a member of Roosevelt’s own party: Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina.
draftsman was a Southern Democrat, Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina. Bailey, an influential leader of Southern conservatives in the United States Senate since 1931, had viewed with distaste the trend of many New Deal policies and often differed with a Presi-dent he twice helped to elect.' Essentially conservative and op-
Josiah William Bailey was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1931 and 1946. Born in Warrenton, North Carolina, he grew up in Raleigh and graduated from Wake...
