Bailey, Willis Joshua, 1854-1932

When Willis J. Bailey became governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1922, it was not the first time he had been referred to by that title. Bailey, the founder of the northeast Kansas community of Baileyville, was elected the state's sixteenth governor in 1902, the culmination of a political career that had already seen him serve two terms in the Kansas legislature and a congressional term. (Source: Federal Reserve History)