Bill Barrett

Bill Barrett

William E. "Bill" Barrett (born February 9, 1929 in Lexington , Nebraska , † September 20, 2016 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1991 and 2001 he represented the third constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Bill Barrett attended Hastings College until 1952 and then the Nebraska Realtors Institute . He then worked in the real estate market and served in the US Navy . Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1964 and 1966 and again from 1973 to 1979 he was on the board of the Republicans in Nebraska, where he himself was party chairman from 1973 to 1975.

In August 1968 Barrett was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach , where Richard Nixon was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. In 1975 and 1976 he led Gerald Ford's presidential campaign in Nebraska. From 1973 to 1975 he was also a member of the Republican National Committee . Bill Barrett was a co-founder and curator of the Nebraska Real Estate Political Education Committee . From 1979 to 1991 he sat in the Nebraska Legislature , as whose President he served from 1987 in the successor of William E. Nichol .

In 1990 Barrett was elected to the US House of Representatives in the Third District of Nebraska, where he succeeded Virginia Smith on January 3, 1991 . After he also won the following four elections, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until January 3, 2001. He was a member and later deputy chairman of the Agriculture Committee . He was also on the education committee. In 2000, he no longer ran for Congress. Bill was married to Elsie Carlson Barrett and lived in Nebraska until the end.

Web links

• Bill Barrett in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Bill Barrett in the database of Find a Grave (English)