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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaWilliam Oscar BARNARD
(1852-1939)
BARNARD, William Oscar, a
Representative from Indiana; born near Liberty, Union County, Ind.,
October 25, 1852; moved with his parents to Dublin, Wayne County,
Ind., in 1854, to Fayette County in 1856, and to Henry County in
1866; attended the common schools, and Spiceland Academy,
Spiceland, Ind.; taught school for five years in Henry and Wayne
Counties; admitted to the Indiana bar, 1876; prosecuting attorney
of the eighteenth and fifty-third judicial circuits, 1887-1893;
judge of the fifty-third judicial circuit court of Indiana,
1896-1902; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first Congress
(March 4, 1909-March 3, 1911); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection to the Sixty-second Congress in 1910; resumed the
practice of law in New Castle, Ind.; died on April 8, 1939, in New
Castle, Indiana; interment in Southmound Cemetery, New Castle,
Ind.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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