Demas Barnes

Demas Barnes ( born April 4, 1827 in Gorham Township, New York, † May 1, 1888 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1867 and 1869 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Demas Barnes attended public schools and then went commercial transactions after. In 1849 he moved to New York City and pursued there drug stores. Barnes traveled through the continent in a car and studied during which the raw material deposits in Colorado, Nevada and California. He then returned to New York City, where he wrote articles concerning his experiences and those published then.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1866 he was in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Teunis G. Bergen on March 4, 1867. Since he gave up for reelection in 1868, he retired after the March 3, 1869 out of the Congress.

About eight years after the end of the civil war, he founded the Brooklyn Argus and also served as editor of the newspaper. He also went to real estate transactions. He sat in the Education Committee ( Board of Education ). He was one of the original trustees of the Brooklyn Bridge, when it was still a private company. Barnes died on May 1, 1888 in New York City and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.