Guy Dailey

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Guy W. Dailey (July 24, 1827 – January 2, 1899) was an American farmer from the Town of Hudson, Wisconsin who spent a single one-year term as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from St. Croix County.[1]

Background[]

Dailey was born in Massena, New York on July 24, 1827; received a common school education and became a farmer. At some point he immigrated to Canada West, and in 1850 moved from there to St. Croix County, settling in the Town of Hudson.

Public office[]

He held various local offices, including chairman of his town, before being elected in 1876 to the Assembly as a member of the Reform Party (a short-lived coalition of Democrats, reform and Liberal Republicans, and Grangers formed in 1873, which secured the election of a governor and a number of state legislators), with 1,860 votes to 1,744 for Republican G. M. Street. (The incumbent, fellow Reformer Philo Boyden, was not a candidate for re-election.) Dailey was assigned to the standing committee on privileges and elections.[2]

He was not a candidate for re-election in 1877, and was succeeded by Republican . (The Reform Party was breaking down, and there was no Reform candidate on the ballot.) In 1879 he would try to unseat Hill for his old seat, running as a Democrat (as the Reform Party had completely disintegrated by then), but Hill polled 1,695 votes to Dailey's 1,595.[3]

After the legislature[]

He continued to farm, and died (described as "one of the well-known popular pioneer farmers of Hudson prairie") at his home on January 2, 1899, after an illness of several weeks.[4] He and Mary Cook Dailey (1819 - 1905) are buried in the Willow River Cemetery in Hudson.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 42 Archived 2006-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Bashford, R. M., ed. The legislative manual of the state of Wisconsin: comprising the constitutions of the United States and of the state of Wisconsin, Jefferson's manual, forms and laws for the regulation of business; also, lists and tables for reference, etc. Sixteenth Annual Edition. Madison: E. B. Bolens, State Printer, 1877; pp. 399, 473, 487
  3. ^ Warner, Hans B., ed. The blue book of the state of Wisconsin 1880 Madison: 1880; p. 523
  4. ^ "Guy W. Dailey" Minneapolis Journal January 3, 1899
  5. ^ findagrave.com listing

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