Bill Barrett

William E. "Bill" Barrett ( born February 9, 1929 in Lexington, Nebraska ) is a former American politician. Between 1991 and 2001 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bill Barrett attended until 1952 the Hastings College and then the Nebraska Realtors Institute. Subsequently, he was active in the real estate market and served in the U.S. Navy. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1964 and 1966, and again from 1973 to 1979 he was on the board of the Republicans in Nebraska, where he held until 1975 itself was party chairman from 1973.

In 1968, Barrett was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, was nominated for the Richard Nixon Presidential candidate of the party. In the years 1975 and 1976 he headed the presidential campaign of Gerald Ford in Nebraska. From 1973 to 1975, he also belonged to the Republican National Committee. Bill Barrett was co-founder and curator of the Nebraska Real Estate Political Education Committee. From 1979 to 1991 he sat in the Nebraska Legislature, as its president, he served from 1987.

1990 Barrett was elected in the third district of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Virginia Smith on January 3, 1991. After he won the next four elections, he could implement his mandate in Congress until January 3, 2001. He was a member and later vice chairman of the Agriculture Committee. He also sat in the Board of Education. In 2000, he did not campaign for the Congress. Bill is married to Elsie Carlson Barrett and still lives in Nebraska.