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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaJohn Strode BARBOUR
(1790-1855)
BARBOUR, John Strode,
(father of John Strode Barbour, Jr., cousin of James Barbour and
Philip Pendleton Barbour), a Representative from Virginia; born at
“Fleetwood,” near Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Va.,
August 8, 1790; attended private schools; was graduated from the
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1808; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced practice in
Culpeper, Va.; served in the War of 1812 as aide-de-camp to General
Madison; member of the State house of delegates 1813-1816,
1820-1823, 1833, and 1834; elected as a Crawford Republican to the
Eighteenth and as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through the
Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1833); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1832; member of the Virginia
constitutional conventions in 1829 and 1830; chairman of the
Democratic National Convention in 1852; resumed the practice of
law; died on his estate, “Fleetwood,” near Culpeper,
Culpeper County, Va., on January 12, 1855; interment in the family
burying ground on his estate.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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