Wendell Bailey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetWendell Bailey
American politician
Date of Birth: 30-Jul-1940
Place of Birth: Willow Springs, Missouri, United States
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Wendell Bailey
- Robert Wendell Bailey (born July 30, 1940) is an American politician from Missouri.
- He graduated from Southwest Missouri State University with a degree in Business Administration and owned an automobile dealership in Willow Springs.
- After serving as mayor of his native Willow Springs, Bailey was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1972 and re-elected in 1974, 1976, and 1978.
- In 1980, Bailey was elected to the United States House of Representatives, but after the 1980 census Missouri lost one congressional district, and Bailey's 8th District was eliminated.
- The bulk of his district was merged with the neighboring 4th district of two-term Democrat Ike Skelton.
- Although Bailey lost, he held Skelton to 54 percent of the vote, which was notable considering Skelton retained 60 percent of his former territory.
- In 1984 Bailey made a comeback and was elected Missouri State Treasurer; he was narrowly re-elected to this office in 1988 over future Missouri Governor Bob Holden.
- In 1992 Bailey made an unsuccessful bid for Governor of Missouri, finishing third in the Republican primary behind then-Attorney General William L.
- Webster (who won the nomination) and then-Secretary of State Roy Blunt.
- Bailey cast himself as the only pro-choice candidate in the 1992 GOP governor's primary, whereas Webster and Blunt were both clearly pro-life. Bailey narrowly lost the Republican primary for a seat in the Missouri Senate in 1996, but in 2000 Bailey captured the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor, although he was defeated by Democrat Joe Maxwell in the general election.
- In 2006, the St.
- Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Bailey was working in the Kansas City, Missouri office of the Small Business Administration as a regional advocate representing Missouri and neighboring states Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska.
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