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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | John S. Barbour, Jr. |
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Alexandria, Virginia , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
December 29, 1820 |
| Died |
May 14, 1892
(71 years) |
| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | BARBOUR, John Strode, Jr., (son of the John Strode Barbour), a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born at “Catalpa,” near Culpeper, Culpeper County, Va., December 29, 1820; attended the common schools and graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; admitted to the bar in 1841 and commenced practice in Culpeper; member of the State house of delegates 1847-1851; president of the Orange & Alexandria Railroad Co. 1852-1881; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh, and the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1886; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1889, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 14, 1892; interment in the burial ground at “Poplar Hill,” Prince Georges County, Md.
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