William Henry Bailey

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William Henry Bailey

William Henry Bailey (January 22, 1831 – August 17, 1908) was an American author, lawyer, and politician.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref> He was the North Carolina Attorney General and served in the North Carolina General Assembly. He co-founded and taught law at the Bailey Law School.

Early life

Bailey was born at Mt.Pleasant in Pasquotank County, North Carolina.<ref name=":3">Template:Cite web</ref> His parents were Priscilla Elizabeth Brownrigg and John Lancaster Bailey.<ref name=":2" /> His father was a member of the North Carolina House and Senate, a North Carolina Superior Court judge.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":1" /> In the early 1840s, the family moved to Hillsborough, North Carolina where his father practiced law.<ref name=":3" />

Bailey attended the Bingham School and the Caldwell Institute in Hillsborough, North Carolina.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Obit" /><ref name=":2" /> He attended the University of North Carolina.<ref name="Obit">"Hon. William H. Bailey, Author and Lawyer, Dies In Texas", The Winston-Salem Western Sentinel (September 4, 1908), p. 6. via Newspapers.com</ref> He studied law under his father.<ref name=":1" />

Career

Bailey received his law license in 1851 and received his license to practice before the North Carolina Supreme Court in January 1852.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He practiced law in Hillsborough with his father.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Obit" /><ref name=":3" /> He was appointed the secretary at the North Carolina Democratic Party at its convention in May 1952.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He became the Attorney General of North Carolina in December 1856, completing an unexpired term.<ref name=":3" /> In April 1858, he moved his law practice to Yanceyville, North Carolina, but continued to serve courts in Orange, Alamance and Caswell Counties.<ref name=":2" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was elected the county attorney for Caswell County in 1858.<ref name=":3" /> In 1859 or 1860, he moved to Black Mountain, North Carolina with his father and opened the Bailey Law School.<ref name=":1" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":3" /> For a time, he joined the faculty of the school but it was primarily his father's venture.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

On April 24, 1861, Bailey enlisted with the Bethel Regiment, First North Carolina Volunteers as a private.<ref name=":3" /> He fought at the Battle of Bethel Church and First Battle of Bull Run.<ref name="Obit" /><ref name=":2" /> Later, he was a judge advocate.<ref name=":2" />

After the war, Bailey practiced law in Salisbury, North Carolina for ten years starting in early 1865.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> He also wanted to start a law school there, advertising that he had thirteen years of experience as a law teacher.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He joined Nathaniel Boydon in the firm Boyden and Blackman.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> When Boydon was appointed to the North Carolina Supreme Court, Bailey joined the practice of James M. McCorkle.<ref name=":2" /> Governor William Woods Holden appointed Bailey to the position of state code commissioner on August 31, 1871.<ref name=":1" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Bailey held this position until the post was eliminated in 1873.<ref name=":3" />

In the fall of 1874, Bailey moved to Charlotte, North Carolina and practiced law with William Marcus Shipp.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> Shipp had just finished his term as North Carolina Attorney General and was a North Carolina Superior Court judge.<ref name=":2" /> Bailey formed a law partnership with former governor and United States Senator Zebulon Vance in June 1881.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1882, Bailey was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives for Mecklenburg County as a Democrat in 1882.<ref name=":2" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":3" /> While in the legislature, he chaired the judiciary committee.<ref name=":2" /> 

Bailey wrote several books, including The Effect of Civil War upon the Rights of Persons and Property and Conflict of Judicial Decisions.<ref name="EUSH">Encyclopaedia of United States History (1901).</ref> He received an honorary Doctor of Law degree in 1885 from Rutherford College.<ref name=":3" />

Personal life

Bailey married Anne Chamberlain Howerton of Hillsborough on October 20, 1852.<ref name=":2" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> They had five children, daughter Mrs. Archibald Lingan and sons William Henry Bailey Jr. Edmund H. Bailey, Campbell McCulloh Bailey, and Thomas H. Bailey.<ref name="Obit" /><ref name=":2" />

He was a Mason and an Episcopalian.<ref name="Obit" /><ref name=":3" />

In 1890, he retired and moved to Texas where his sons lived; he resided in Seabrook.<ref name="Obit" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On August 17, 1908, Bailey died at his son's home in Seabrook at the age of 77.<ref name="Obit" /> He was interred in Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, Texas.<ref name="Obit" />

Selected publications

• The Effect of Civil War upon the Rights of Persons and Property and Conflict of Judicial Decisions (1867)
• The Onus Probandi, Preparation for Trial and the Right to Open and Conclude. New York and Albany: Banks & Brothers Law Publishers, 1868.
• The State of Religion in the Province of North Carolina (1890)<ref name=":3" />
• Battle of Great Bethel Church. Columbus, Ohio: Blue & Gray Enterprises, 1895.
• The Detective Faculty, As Illustrated from Judicial Records and the Actualities of Experience. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1896.<ref name=":3" />
• The Regulators of North Carolina. (1896)<ref name=":3" />

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