Barnes Compton

Barnes Compton ( born November 16, 1830 in Port Tobacco Village, Charles County, Maryland, † December 4, 1898 in Laurel, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1894 he represented two times the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Barnes Compton was the great-grandson of Congressman Philip Key ( 1750-1820 ). He attended Charlotte Hall Academy in Saint Mary's County and then studied until 1851 at the Princeton College. Compton was born into a wealthy planter family and was also active even in this area. Before the Civil War he was one of the largest slaveholders in Maryland. In 1872, the plantation was due to financial difficulties as a result of the changed situation, including the abolition of slavery, sold. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1860 and 1861 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland; in the years 1867, 1868, 1870 and 1872 he was a member of the State Senate, which he was president in 1868 and 1870. From 1873 to 1874 he served as a tobacco inspector of the Government of Maryland; 1874-1885 he was finance minister of his state. Since 1880 he lived in Laurel.

In the congressional elections of 1884 Compton was in the fifth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hart Benton Holton on March 4, 1885. After a re-election he was able to initially complete two terms in Congress, 1889 to March 3. He was also elected in 1888, but the renewed mandate could only exercise between 4 March 1889, 20 March 1890. On this day he had his seat at Sydney Emanuel Mudd cede, who had successfully appealed against the election contradiction.

In the elections of 1890 Compton was re-elected in the fifth district of his state in Congress, where he Mudd replaced again on March 4, 1891. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation on May 15, 1894 U.S. House of Representatives. Following his time in Congress, Barnes was employed as a Naval Officer with the Port Authority of Baltimore. He died on December 4, 1898 in Laurel and was buried in Baltimore.