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Barbour, John Strode (1790-1855) — of Virginia. Born in Culpeper County, Va., August 7, 1790. Cousin of James Barbour and Philip Pendleton Barbour; father of John Strode Barbour, Jr.. Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1813-16, 1820-23, 1833-34; U.S. Representative from Virginia 15th District, 1823-25, 1827-33; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1852. Died in Culpeper County, Va., January 12, 1855. Interment at a private or family graveyard, Culpeper County, Va.

John Strode Barbour, Sr. (August 8, 1790 – January 12, 1855) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia. He was the father of John Strode Barbour, Jr. and the first cousin of James Barbour and Philip Pendleton Barbour.

Born at "Fleetwood" near Brandy Station, Virginia, Barbour attended private schools as a child and gradutated from the College of William and Mary in 1808. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1811, commencing practice in Culpeper, Virginia. He served in the War of 1812 as aide-de-camp to General James Madison and afterwards served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1813 to 1816 and again from 1820 to 1823. Barbour was elected a Crawford Republican and Jacksonian to the United States House of Representatives in 1822, serving from 1823 to 1833. He was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1829 and 1830 and returned to the House of Delegates in 1833 and 1834. Barbour was chairman of the Democratic National Convention in 1852 and afterwards resumed practicing law until his death at his estate called "Fleetwood" near Culpeper, Virginia on January 12, 1855. He was interned in the family cemetery on the estate.

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Barbour, John Strode, Jr. (1820-1892) — of Virginia. Born in Culpeper County, Va., December 29, 1820. Son of John Strode Barbour and Eliza A. (Byrne) Barbour; married 1865 to Susan Daingerfield. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1847-51; president, Orange & Alexandria Railroad, 1852; U.S. Representative from Virginia 8th District, 1881-87; member of Democratic National Committee from Virginia, 1884-92; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1889-92; died in office 1892. Died in Washington, D.C., May 14, 1892. Interment at a private or family graveyard, Prince George's County, Md.

BARBOUR, John Strode, Jr.
(1820—1892)
Senate Years of Service: 1889-1892
Party: Democrat

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.

Bibliography

Dictionary of American Biography ; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for John S. Barbour, Jr. 52nd Cong., 2nd sess., 1892-1893 . Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1893; Quinn, James Thomas. ”Senator John S. Barbour, Jr. and the Restoration of Virginia Democracy, 1883-1892.” Master’s thesis, University of Virginia, 1966.

Quinn, James Thomas. “John S. Barbour, Jr. and the Restoration of Virginia Democracy, 1883-1892.” Master’s thesis, University of Virginia, 1966.

U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of John S. Barbour (a Senator from Virginia). 52d Cong., 2d sess., 1892-1893. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893.

U.S. Congress. Obsequies [for John Strode Barbour, Jr.]. 52d Cong., 1st sess., 1891-1892. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present

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