Lawrence Dudley Bailey

Lawrence Dudley Bailey (August 26, 1819 – October 15, 1891) was an American abolitionist who served as justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from February 9, 1861 to January 11, 1869.

Born in Sutton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire to Dudley and Sarah (Woodman) Bailey, Bailey worked on his father's farm until the age of seventeen,[1] and attended Franklin, Unity, Pembroke, and Atkinson academies, but never attended college.

[1][2] Under the new free-soil Constitution he was elected as a Judge of the Supreme Court in 1861, and reelected in 1862 for a six year term.

[1][2][3] He was interested in the material development of Kansas, and was prominent in the organization of the first Board of Agriculture.

[2] For a time was editor and publisher of the Cultivator and Herdsman, and was long a contributor to the newspaper press.