Robert R. Barry

Robert R Barry

Robert Raymond Barry (born May 15, 1915 in Omaha , Nebraska , † June 14, 1988 in Redwood City , California ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1959 and 1965 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Raymond Barry was born in Douglas County during the First World War . He attended public schools in Evanston ( Illinois ). Between 1933 and 1936 he went to the Hamilton College in Clinton and in 1937 to the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College . He studied law and finance at New York University Graduate School in 1938 . In addition, in 1937 and 1938 he pursued investment banking at Kidder, Peabody & Co. and in 1938 and 1939 commercial banking at Manufactures Trust Co. Between 1940 and 1943, he was a senior executive at Bendix Aviation Corp. and between 1945 and 1950 at Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. He also worked in agriculture, mining and real estate development. During World War II he worked in the office of the Under Secretary of the Navy . Barry was on the political staff of Wendell Willkie and Governor Thomas E. Dewey, and Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon . He chaired the United Nations Committee to Build World House at the United Nations . He then went mining in Portola and property development in Salton Sea . As a US delegate, he took part in several NATO parliamentary assemblies and was a US delegate to UNESCO . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the 1958 congressional elections for the 86th Congress , Barry was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 27th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Ralph W. Gwinn on January 4, 1959 . He was re-elected once. In 1962 he ran in the 25th constituency of New York for the 88th Congress . After a successful election, he succeeded Paul A. Fino on January 4, 1963 . He suffered for his re-election bid in 1964 , a defeat and withdrew from the after January 3, 1965 Congress of. In 1972 he ran unsuccessfully for nomination for the 93rd Congress .

After his time in Congress, he lived in Woodside , but died on June 14, 1988 in Redwood City.

Web links

• Robert R. Barry in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Robert R. Barry on The Political Graveyard website