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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaBARBOUR, Henry Ellsworth
(1877—1945)
BARBOUR, Henry Ellsworth, a Representative from California; born in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., March 8, 1877; attended the public schools of his native city, the local Free Academy at Ogdensburg, Union College at Schenectady, N.Y., and the law department of George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; was admitted to the New York bar in 1901; moved to Fresno, Fresno County, Calif., in 1902 and engaged in the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; resumed the practice of his profession in Fresno, Calif., where he died on March 21, 1945; interment in Belmont Memorial Cemetery.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the census. Apportionment of Representatives ... Report
. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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