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Barbour, John Strode, 1820-1892

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Personal name headingBarbour, John Strode, 1820-1892
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Variant(s)Barbour, Mr. (John Strode), 1820-1892
Barbour, John Strode, Jr. 1820-1892
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedVirginia
Birth date1820-12-29
Death date1892-05-14
Place of birthCulpeper County (Va.)
Place of deathPrince George's County (Md.)
AffiliationUniversity of Virginia
Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates
United States. Congress. House
United States. Congress. Senate
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupationLegislators Lawyers
Found inNUCMC data from Library of Congress Manuscript Division for His Papers, 1839-1892 (Barbour, John Strode; 1820-1892; U.S. representative from Virginia)
LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Barbour, John Strode, 1820-1892)
Adis Israel Hebrew Congregation, Washington, D.C., 1886: p. 1 (Mr. Barbour, from the Committee on the District of Columbia)
Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed Sept. 22, 2009 (Barbour, John Strode, Jr., (son of the John Strode Barbour), a Representative and a Senator from Va.; b. Dec. 29, 1820; House of Reps., Mar. 4, 1881-Mar. 3, 1887; Senate, 1889-1892; d. May 14, 1892)
Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed March 21, 2024 (Barbour, John Strode, Jr., (son of John Strode Barbour, relative of James Barbour, relative of Philip Pendleton 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); 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.)