Tom Bailey

Tom Bailey is the Libertarian Party nominee in North Carolina's 1st Congressional District. He is a Vietnam veteran and longtime Libertarian activist who has worked on ballot access and election law. In his Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey he lists protecting individual liberty, election integrity and limiting taxation among his priorities.[1]

Tom Bailey served in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1971, according to his Ballotpedia survey, and earned a high school diploma from South Bakersfield High School and a degree from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington in 1993.[1]

Bailey says he has managed and supported numerous local and state campaigns and has spent decades supporting ballot access and constitutional governance in North Carolina.[1] He has served on the Libertarian Party of North Carolina Executive Committee and as chairman of its Legal Action Committee, where he helped lead the federal ballot-access lawsuit McLoughlin v. Marsh.[1] He ran as a Libertarian for U.S. House in North Carolina's 13th District in 2018 and in the 1st District in 2024, losing both general elections; this is his third congressional run.[1]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.