David Barker, Jr.

David Barker ( born January 8, 1797 in Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, † April 1, 1834 in Rochester, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1827 and 1829 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Barker attended the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter and then studied until 1815 at Harvard University. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1819 admitted to the bar he started in Rochester to work in his new profession.

Politically, he joined in the 1820s the group led by John Quincy Adams, which was in opposition to Andrew Jackson and his supporters. Accordingly, it was Barker member of the short-lived National Republican Party. In the years 1823, 1825 and 1826, he was a member of the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. In the congressional elections of 1826, which were held all across the state, he was a candidate of his party for the third parliamentary seat of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1827, the successor of Nehemiah Eastman. But until March 3, 1829, he was able to complete only one term in Congress. This period was overshadowed by intense political discussions between the warring political camps.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Barker again worked as a lawyer. He was also a founding member of the New Hampshire Historical Society. David Barker died on April 1, 1834 in Rochester, and was also buried there.