Frederick G. Barry

Frederick George Barry ( born January 12, 1845 in Woodbury, Cannon County, Tennessee; † May 7 in West Point, Mississippi, 1909 ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1889 he represented the seventh election district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frederick Barry received only a limited education and entered at an early age during the civil war in the Army of the Confederate States. There he was a simple soldier of the cavalry. After the war he studied law and began to work in his new profession after qualifying as a lawyer in Aberdeen in Monroe County. In 1873 he moved his residence and therefore his office to West Point in Clay County.

Barry was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1875 and 1879 he sat in the Senate of Mississippi. In 1884 he was selected in the seventh district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he replaced James Ronald Chalmers on March 4, 1885. After a re-election in 1886, Barry was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1889 two legislative sessions. In 1888 he opted not to run again. After the end of his time in Congress, he retired from politics and worked again as a lawyer in West Point, where he died in 1909.

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