Dewey C. Bailey | |
Birth Date: | 1 September 1860 |
Birth Place: | Coldwater, Michigan |
Death Place: | Denver, Colorado |
Spouse: | [1] |
Order: | 32nd |
Office: | Mayor of Denver |
Term Start: | 1919 |
Term End: | 1923 |
Predecessor: | William Fitz Randolph Mills |
Successor: | Benjamin F. Stapleton |
Dewey Crossman Bailey (September 1, 1860 – December 17, 1937) was an American politician who served as the Republican mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1919 to 1923.[2] Among the other events of his administration, in August 1920 Denver streetcar workers strike, causing a multi-day riot and requiring the insertion of federal troops.
Before serving as mayor, Bailey was a United States Marshall for Colorado from 1897 to 1915.[3] He died of heart disease in 1937.[4]