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| Affiliation | Conservative |
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| Name | David A. Barnes |
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Murfreesboro, North Carolina , United States |
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
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| Info | Judge David A. Barnes long resided at Murfreesboro, but was a native of Northampton County; the son of Captain Collin W. Barnes, who was a most worthy man and greatly esteemed, the representative of his county in 1829 and 1830 in the Legislature.
David A. Barnes was educated at the University and graduated in 1840 in same class with Governor Caldwell, John W. Cunningham, Lucius J. Johnson, William Johnston, Judge Shipp, C. H. Wiley, and others. He studied law, and with such success that in 1865 he was made one of the Judges of the Supreme Court. He was elected a member of the Legislature in 1844, 1846 and 1850. During the war he was one of the Military Council of Governor Vance. In 1873 he was a candidate for Congress and defeated by C. L. Cobb. He married Betty, the daughter of Colonel Uriah Vaughan of Murfreesboro--to which place he removed; by his general manners and acquirements he always enjoyed the regard and esteem of his fellow-citizens.
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