Wesley Bailey (1808 – February 26, 1889) was an American newspaper editor and politician from New York.
He learned the printer's trade, and was a Minister of the Reformed Methodist Church.
He edited from 1840 to 1842 the Fayetteville Luminary and Reformed Methodist Iintelligencer (Methodist Reformer after September 23, 1841), from 1842 to 1849 the Liberty Press, the paper of the Liberty Party, and from 1849 to 1852 the Utica Teetotaller.
In September 1854, he was a delegate to the Temperance state convention which nominated Myron H. Clark for Governor.
In 1855, he was nominated by the Republicans for Inspector of State Prisons but was defeated by the American Party candidate William A. Russell.