Middleton P. Barrow

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Middleton Barrow

Middleton Pope Barrow (born August 1, 1839 in Antioch , Oglethorpe County , Georgia , †  December 23, 1903 in Savannah , Georgia) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Georgia in the US Senate .

Barrow, whose grandfather Wilson Lumpkin was Governor of Georgia from 1831 to 1835 , attended private school and graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens with a bachelor's degree in 1859 . The following year he graduated from the local law school , was admitted to the bar and began practicing as a lawyer in Athens. During the Civil War , he entered the service of the Confederate government . After the war, he returned to work as a lawyer and participated in the state's constitutional convention in 1877.

He became politically active for the first time when he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1880 to 1881 . The following year he was elected to the US Senate, where he took the place of the late Benjamin Harvey Hill . He remained from November 15, 1882 to the end of the legislative period on March 3, 1883 in Congress and was not nominated for re-election, so that he subsequently resumed his legal practice in Athens.

On January 6, 1902, Barrow took up his post as judge for the Georgia Eastern Judicial District, which he held until his death the following year. He was buried on his family's plantation in Oglethorpe County.

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SURNAME Barrow, Middleton P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barrow, Middleton Pope
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH near Antioch , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1903
Place of death Savannah , Georgia