John Strode Barbour, Jr.
John Strode Barbour, Jr. (
December 29 1820 -
May 14 1892) was a
Representative and a
Senator from
Virginia.
Barbour was born at "Catalpa", near
Culpeper, Virginia, the son of
John Strode Barbour. He attended the common schools and graduated from the law department of the
University of Virginia at
Charlottesville. He was admitted to the
bar in 1841 and commenced practice in Culpeper.
Barbour served as a member of the
State house of delegates from 1847 to 1851, and was president of the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad Co. from 1852 to 1881. He was elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-seventh, and the two succeeding Congresses (
March 4 1881 -
March 3 1887). There he served as chairman of the
Committee on the District of Columbia (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1886.
Barbour was elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate and served from
March 4 1889, until his death in 1892 in
Washington, D.C.. He was intered in the burial ground at "Poplar Hill,"
Prince George's County, Maryland.
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* 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.
