Alexander Hamilton Bailey (14 August 1817 – 20 April 1874) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NY 21) from 30 November 1867 to 3 March 1871, succeeding Roscoe Conkling and preceding Ellis H. Roberts.
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Alexander Hamilton Bailey was born in Minisink, Orange County, New York in 1817, and he became a lawyer in 1837. He served in the Greene County chancery from 1840 to 1842, as justice of the peace for Catskill for four years, in the State Assembly in 1849, as Green County judge from 1851 to 1855, in the State Senate from 1862 to 1865, in the US House of Representatives from 1867 to 1871, and as an Oneida County judge from 1871 until his death in 1874.