Lucien Barbour

Lucien Barbour (born March 4, 1811 in Canton , Connecticut , †  July 19, 1880 in Indianapolis , Indiana ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lucien Barbour studied at Amherst College in Massachusetts until 1837 . In 1837 he moved to Madison , Indiana. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1839, he began to work in Indianapolis in this profession. He then served as an arbitrator between the Indiana state government and private companies on several occasions. He was later named State Attorney for Indiana by President James K. Polk to succeed Daniel Mace . In 1852 he served on a commission to revise the state law of Indiana. Politically, he joined the short-lived Opposition Party in the early 1850s .

In the congressional election of 1854 , Barbour was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Thomas A. Hendricks on March 4, 1855 . Since he refused to run again in 1856, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1857 . This was shaped by the events leading up to the civil war . Barbour later joined the Republican Party .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Lucien Barbour practiced again as a lawyer in Indianapolis. He died there on July 19, 1880.

Web links

• Lucien Barbour in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lucien Barbour in the database of Find a Grave (English)