William T. Barry

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William Taylor Barry

William Taylor Barry (born February 5, 1784 in Lunenburg , Lunenburg County , Virginia , † August 30, 1835 in Liverpool ) was an American politician of the Democratic Republican Party , who was a post office minister in the cabinet of US President Andrew Jackson .

William Taylor Barry was a boy when his parents moved him from Virginia to Fayette County , Kentucky . His father, John Barry, was a veteran of the Revolutionary War . Attending public schools and two private schools was followed by studies at Transylvania University in Lexington ; he later moved to William and Mary College in Williamsburg , where he graduated in 1803. After graduating in law , he was admitted to the bar in 1805. Barry first worked as a lawyer in Jessamine County , then in Lexington.

His political career began in 1807 when he became a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives . In 1810 he moved into the US House of Representatives as a representative of his state , to which he belonged until 1811. After serving as a soldier in the British-American War , he returned to politics and took one of Kentucky’s two seats in the US Senate from 1814 to 1816 as the successor to the retired George Bibb . After leaving Congress , he sat in the Kentucky Senate between 1817 and 1821 .

In 1820 he became a member of the state executive as a lieutenant governor ; In 1824 he moved to the office of Secretary of State of Kentucky, which he held until 1825. The candidacy for governor was unsuccessful in 1828. In 1829 he was called to Washington, DC again when he became Postmaster General in the Jackson Cabinet , which he remained until 1835. The next station in William Barry's political career should have been the office of US Ambassador to Spain , where he was intended to succeed Cornelius P. Van Ness . However, he died on the voyage there when his ship made a stop in Liverpool, England. After he was buried there, where a cenotaph still commemorates the American politician, his remains were brought back to America in 1854 and buried in Frankfort .

In his honor were the Barry County in Michigan and the Barry County in Missouri named after him. His nephew Luke P. Blackburn later became governor of Kentucky.

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SURNAME Barry, William T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barry, William Taylor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Democratic Republican Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Lunenburg , Lunenburg County, Virginia
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1835
Place of death Liverpool