Abraham Andrews Barker

Abraham Andrews Barker ( born March 30, 1816 in Lovell, Oxford County, Massachusetts, † March 18, 1898 in Altoona, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1867 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in present-day Maine Abraham Barker attended the common schools and worked in agriculture. Since 1854, he first lived in Carrolltown and Ebensburg (Pennsylvania), where he was engaged in trade and in the lumber business. He was also president of a local railway company. Politically, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In May 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. During the Civil War he served for several months as a soldier in the army of the Union.

In the congressional elections of 1864 Barker was in the 17th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Archibald McAllister on March 4, 1865. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1866, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1867. During this time, ended the civil war. Slavery in the United States was prohibited with the ratification of the 13th Amendment, yet in 1865. Since 1865 the work of the Congress of the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson was charged, which culminated later in a narrowly failed impeachment.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Abraham Barker worked among other again in the timber industry. In 1872, he unsuccessfully sought his return to Congress. Since 1880 he lived in retirement. He died on 18 March 1898 in Altoona, where he had gathered for medical treatment.