John Barrow (politician)

John Barrow

John Jenkins Barrow (born October 31, 1955 in Athens , Georgia ) is an American politician . From 2005 to 2015 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Barrow attended Clarke Central High School and then studied political science at the University of Georgia in Athens until 1976 . After studying law at Harvard University and being admitted to the bar in 1979, he began working in his new profession. Politically, Barrow joined the Democratic Party . In 1990 he was elected to the Athens City Council. This office was then attached to the Clarke County County Council . Between 1990 and 2004 he was a member of this body.

In the 2004 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the twelfth constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Max Burns on January 3, 2005 . After four re-elections, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until January 3, 2015. In the 2014 elections, he lost 45:55 percent of the vote to Republican Rick W. Allen and consequently had to leave the House of Representatives.

Barrow was most recently a member of the Energy and Trade Committee and three of its sub-committees. He was deputy parliamentary group leader of the Blue Dog Coalition in the 112th Congress , an alliance of conservative members of the Democratic Party in terms of finance and social policy. His voting behavior in Congress was not always in line with his party. Among other things, he voted against the federal government's health reform. He is divorced and has lived privately in Savannah since 2006 . Barrow claims to be a proud member of the NRA's lobby for gun owners, and in the "Nobody" campaign ad, he warned that he would defend the right to bear arms.

In 2018, Barrow was a Democratic candidate for Secretary of State Georgia, specifically overseeing the electoral process. Barrow prevailed in the Democratic primary election and received 16,000 fewer votes than his Republican rival Brad Raffensberger in the main election on November 6, 2018, but since none of them achieved an absolute majority, there will be a runoff on December 4, 2018 Before this, the defeated Libertarian Party candidate , Smythe DuVal, surprisingly agreed to support Barrow. In particular, following the controversial, restrictive line of the previous Secretary of State Brian Kemp , who also ran as candidate for governor in 2018 without retiring as election overseer, the future appointment of the office is considered important.

Web links

Commons : John Barrow  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• John Barrow in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John Barrow in nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georgia Election Results: November 4, 2014
2. ↑ Article in the Huffington Post
3. ↑ Steve Israel : The most important runoff election is one you probably never heard of. In: The Hill , November 14, 2018; Greg Bluestein: A Libertarian runner-up picks a side in secretary of state race. In: Politically Georgia , November 19, 2018.