David Bailey (diplomat)

David Haworth Bailey (September 27, 1830 – January 20, 1896) was an American diplomat who served for 10 years in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

He worked an attorney at law and as a newspaper editor in Cincinnati, Leavenworth, Kansas and Wilmington, Ohio.

He was a member of the Kansas Legislature from 1860 to 1861 and a presidential elector (Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax) for the 6th Ohio District in 1868.

Mosby thought Bailey had almost doubled his salary over the previous eight years by embezzlement and kickbacks, and stopped charging for shipboard examinations (which he personally conducted).

[4] The investigations into allegation made by Mosby led to Bailey (and U.S. Minister George Seward's) resignations.

U.S. Consulate General, Shanghai, 1880. This picture was sent by Bailey to the State Department in 1880