Henry W. Barry

Henry W. Barry

Henry W. Barry (April 1840 in Schoharie County , New York , † June 7, 1875 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1870 and 1875 he represented the third constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Barry acquired much of the academic knowledge himself and then taught at Locust Grove Academy in Kentucky . During the Civil War he went into the army of the Union to the Brevet - brigadier on. He set up a regiment with Afro-American soldiers in Kentucky in 1861 and also temporarily commanded units that consisted of Afro-Americans in the further course of the war.

After retiring from military service in May 1866, Barry studied law at Columbian College , now George Washington University . After his admission to the bar in 1867, he began to work in his new profession in Columbus, Mississippi. Barry became a member of the Republican Party . In 1867 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Mississippi Constitution; In 1868 he was in the Senate elected the state.

After Mississippi's re-entry into the Union in 1870, Barry was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the third district of the state. There he took the seat that William Barksdale had left in January 1861. After he was confirmed in the following elections, he could remain in Congress between February 23, 1870 and March 3, 1875 . There he was chairman of the Post Office's Expenditure Control Committee. After his departure from Congress, Barry died in June of the same year in the federal capital Washington.

Web links

• Henry W. Barry in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Henry W. Barry in the database of Find a Grave (English)