Henry E. Barbour

Henry Ellsworth Barbour ( born March 8, 1877 in Ogdensburg, New York, † March 21, 1945 in Fresno, California ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1933 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Barbour attended the public schools of his home and then the Union College in Schenectady. After a subsequent law studies at the George Washington University in Washington DC and his 1901 was admitted to the bar in 1902, he began to work in Fresno in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1918, Barbour was elected the seventh constituency of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Denver S. Church on March 4, 1919. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 seven legislative sessions. In 1919 was introduced nationwide with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, women's suffrage. 1932 Henry Barbour was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on March 21, 1945 in Fresno.