Mark Gailey was born and raised in the Kentucky community of Berea, where his father, Frank Gailey, was a professor of science at Berea College.

Gailey's mother, Sara Clark (Sallie) Gailey, homemaker and volunteer, taught him civic political participation through her occasional duties as Democratic state delegate.

In Gailey's early teenage years, he became a strong supporter of the peace movement, following his parents' interest and commitment by membership into the Religious Society of Friends. The Friends (Quakers) later sponsored Mark on a Quaker Youth Pilgrimage to Northwest England to study their religious foundation and to Germany for a voluntary work experience at a child fostering institution.

Mark was also heavily involved with the youth program at Berea's ecumenical and non-denominational Union Church (of Christ), and attended summer camp at Presbyterian Camp Burnamwood for several years. He is a member of Union Church and enjoys singing in the choir.

Gailey became very interested in dramatics and theatre through Berea College and Berea Community High programs and the independent Berea Community Theatre. As a high school student, Gailey attended Berea College for elective high school credits in theatre, religion and political science.

Taking his last semester off from senior high, Gailey trained and worked with H & R Block, preparing income tax returns paraprofessionally for two seasons. For the next ten years, he developed his own tax return preparation business. The following ten years were spent downsizing while contemplating the lack of statutory mandates requiring citizens and residents to file or to be found liable for income tax on domestic income.

Gailey managed a branch of his brother David Gailey's health food store for a year in Somerset, Kentucky. He has also enjoyed clerking for many years at the Berea branch of Happy Meadow Nutrition Center, clerking for the 1980 census, and as Night Auditor for Penny Pincher Motel.

In the late seventies, Gailey returned to Berea College as an undergraduate studying music. His work study assignments were in theatre carpentry and lighting, and broadcast management.

Gailey took several breaks from higher education's early focus in music, business and political science; then Gailey finished a broadcast degree from Eastern Kentucky University. He applied himself in cooperative and extended employment opportunities in videography and media services at EKU.

After years of continued research regarding irrefutable challenges to the legality of our misapplied tax liability system, Gailey declared himself a Contract Citizen and joined the Save-A-Patriot Fellowship for paralegal and insurance like support and defense from IRS racketeering. He next revoked his original application for the former social security number assigned to him by the Social Security Administration. This action was based on the government's fraudulent misrepresentation of the voluntary social welfare program and the the fact that the application was executed with him as a minor, without legal standing.

Gailey joined the Libertarian Party in 1980, spending a decade lobbying for party equity, fair and even-level electoral playing fields and open political debates. In the next decade he made symbolic write-in campaigns and began running in earnest in the year 2000 for the 36th district state house seat. He has made challenges for Kentucky's 6th Congressional District in 2002 and February 2004 in the special election.

As a Contract Citizen, Gailey contracts in a variety of construction, landscaping, home and people care assignments, embracing the "megatrends" service industry. He also takes on commissioned piecework and all-American made product sales. Gailey is training as an apprentice in the electrical field.

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