Samuel S. Barney

Samuel S. Barney

Samuel Stebbins Barney (born January 31, 1846 in Hartford , Washington County , Wisconsin , †  December 31, 1919 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1895 and 1903 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Barney attended the common schools and then the Lombard University in Galesburg ( Illinois ). He then spent four years in Hartford as a high school teacher. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1873, he began to work in his new profession in West Bend . Between 1876 and 1880 Barney was also a school councilor in Washington County.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where James G. Blaine was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the same year he ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of 1894 he was then elected to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded George H. Brickner on March 4, 1895 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four terms in Congress by March 3, 1903 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell .

In 1902, Samuel Barney renounced another congressional candidacy. In the following years until 1919 he was a judge at the Court of Claims , a federal court in Washington. He died in Milwaukee on December 31, 1919 and was buried in West Bend.

Web links

• Samuel S. Barney in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel S. Barney in the database of Find a Grave (English)