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| term_start=June 24, 1908
| term_start=June 24, 1908
| term_end=1912
| term_end=1912
| occupation=[[Business]]man; [[Banker]]<br>
| occupation=[[Business]]man; [[Banker]]
[[Oilman]]; [[Journalist]]
[[Oil]]man; [[Journalist]]
| residence=Winnfield, Louisiana
| residence=Winnfield, Louisiana
| spouse=Penelope Dickerson Bailey
| spouse=Penelope Dickerson Bailey
}}
}}
'''Bryant William Bailey''' (July 29, 1868 – February 3, 1961)<ref name=cemeteryrecords>Winnfield(Louisiana) City Cemetery records.</ref><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, published by the Louisiana Historical Association, '' lists Bailey's lifespan as 1866 – February 5, 1962.</ref> was a[[Louisiana]] [[business]]man, [[politician]], and [[journalist]] who became a leading figure during the 1890s in the short-lived [[Populist Party]].
'''Bryant William Bailey''' (July 29, 1868 – February 3, 1961)<ref name=cemeteryrecords>Winnfield(Louisiana) City Cemetery records.</ref><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, published by the Louisiana Historical Association, '' lists Bailey's lifespan as 1866 – February 5, 1962.</ref> was a [[Louisiana]] [[business]]man, [[politician]], and [[journalist]] who became a leading figure during the 1890s in the short-lived [[Populist Party]].
==Background==
==Background==
Bailey was born and briefly educated in Winn Parish to immigrants from [[Georgia]]. In October 1890, he moved from his family property to the seat of government in Winnfield to become the manager of a branch store of the local Farmers Union Cooperative Association. By 1894, he was owner of the Bailey Hotel in Winnfield. In 1902, Bailey drilled the first [[oil]] well in Winn Parish,<ref name=bailey>{{cite web|url=http://genforum.genealogy.com/bailey/messages/9169.html|title=Zachariah and Bryant Bailey|publisher=genforum.genealogy.com|accessdate=January 9, 2020}}</ref> a year after the first such structure had been undertaken in the state in 1901 near Jennings in Jeff Davis Parish in southwestern Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-h/|title=Heywood, Walter Scott|publisher=Louisiana Historical Association: ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography''|accessdate=January 9, 2020}}</ref>
Bailey was born and briefly educated in Winn Parish to immigrants from [[Georgia]]. In October 1890, he moved from his family property to the seat of government in Winnfield to become the manager of a branch store of the local Farmers Union Cooperative Association. By 1894, he was owner of the Bailey Hotel in Winnfield. In 1902, Bailey drilled the first [[oil]] well in Winn Parish,<ref name=bailey>{{cite web|url=http://genforum.genealogy.com/bailey/messages/9169.html|title=Zachariah and Bryant Bailey|publisher=genforum.genealogy.com|accessdate=January 9, 2020}}</ref> a year after the first such structure had been undertaken in the state in 1901 near Jennings in Jeff Davis Parish in southwestern Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-h/|title=Heywood, Walter Scott|publisher=Louisiana Historical Association: ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography''|accessdate=January 9, 2020}}</ref>
==Populist Party==
==Populist Party==
Prior to 1890, like most Louisiana voters at that time, Bailey was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]. Thereafter, he joined the Populist Party, which claimed to represent the "common man" against the entrenched "interests." Soon Bailey emerged as a regional leader of the Populists. The party's Louisiana branch was organized on October 2, 1891, at a convention of delegates from seventeen parishes held in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana. In addition to Bailey, another leading Populist at the founding convention was Hardy L. Brian, a native of Grant Parish, then residing in Winnfield.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jga/7.1/sipress.html|author=Joel Sipress|title=A Narrowing of Vision: Hardy L. Brian and the Fate of Louisiana Populism|publisher=historycooperative.org|accessdate=February 4, 2011; material no longer accessible}}</ref>
Prior to 1890, like most Louisiana voters at that time, Bailey was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]. Thereafter, he joined the Populist Party, which claimed to represent the "common man" against the entrenched "interests." Soon Bailey emerged as a regional leader of the Populists. The party's Louisiana branch was organized on October 2, 1891, at a convention of delegates from seventeen parishes held in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana. In addition to Bailey, another leading Populist at the founding convention was Hardy L. Brian, a native of Grant Parish, then residing in Winnfield.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jga/7.1/sipress.html|author=Joel Sipress|title=A Narrowing of Vision: Hardy L. Brian and the Fate of Louisiana Populism|publisher=historycooperative.org|accessdate=February 4, 2011; material no longer accessible}}</ref>