Andy Barr

Andy Barr (2013)

Garland Hale "Andy" Barr IV (* 24. July 1973 in Lexington , Kentucky ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . Since 2013 he has represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Andy Barr attended Henry Clay High School in his hometown of Lexington until 1992 and then studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville until 1996 . After studying law at the University of Kentucky and being admitted to the bar in 2001, he began working in this profession in a law firm. While still a student, he worked for Senator Mitch McConnell and the Republican National Committee . He then served on the staff of Congressman Jim Talent of Missouri . He later worked for Governor Ernie Fletcher . But he was not involved in the scandals surrounding this governor. He later taught constitutional law at the University of Kentucky.

In 2010 he ran unsuccessfully against the Democratic electorate Ben Chandler in Kentucky's sixth congressional electoral district for the US House of Representatives. Only 600 votes or less than one percent separated him from a victory. In the 2012 election , Barr faced Chandler again and this time won by 4 percent or 11,000 votes. On January 3, 2013, he succeeded Chandler in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . In the 2014 election , Barr defended his mandate with a 20 percent lead. In the election in 2016 he was confirmed and belongs to the 115th Congress of the United States of. His mandate runs until January 3, 2019. He will run for Republican again in the 2018 election . He has a serious competitor in the Democrat Amy McGrath , who has a high reputation as the first female pilot in a combat mission and who defeated the party leadership-sponsored, popular mayor of Lexington in the primary election in May 2018 with an anti-establishment election campaign.

Andy Barr is widowed and has two daughters. His wife died in June 2020 at the age of 39.

Web links

Commons : Andy Barr  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence at the Congress (English)
• Andy Barr in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

supporting documents

1. ^ Rae Hodge: Meet the Republican Mitch McConnell Called a "Pathological Liar": How Gov.-elect Matt Bevin Decimated Kentucky Democrats. In: Salon.com , November 4, 2015 (English).
2. ↑ Unusual victory in an unusual election year in Kentucky. In: Der Standard , May 23, 2018.
3. ↑ Christine Hauser: Eleanor Carol Leavell Barr, Wife of Kentucky Congressman, Dies at 39 . In: The New York Times , June 17, 2020.