Frederick G. Barry

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Frederick George Barry (born January 12, 1845 in Woodbury , Cannon County , Tennessee , † May 7, 1909 in West Point , Mississippi ) was an American politician . Between 1885 and 1889 he represented the seventh constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frederick Barry only received a limited education and entered at a young age during the Civil War in the Army of the Confederate States one. There he was a simple soldier in the cavalry. After the war, he studied law and began to work in his new profession after his admission to the bar in Aberdeen , Monroe County . In 1873 he moved his residence and with it his law firm to West Point in Clay County .

Barry was a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Mississippi Senate between 1875 and 1879 . In 1884 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the seventh district of Mississippi , where he replaced James Ronald Chalmers on March 4, 1885 . After a re-election in 1886, Barry was able to serve two terms in Congress until March 3, 1889 . In 1888, he decided not to run again. After the end of his time in Congress, he retired from politics and worked again as a lawyer at West Point, where he died in 1909.

Web links

  • Frederick G. Barry in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)