Hiram Barber, Jr.

Hiram Barber, Jr. ( born March 24, 1835 in Queensbury, Warren County, New York; † August 5, 1924 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1846, Hiram Barber came to Horicon in Wisconsin. Later he studied at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After a subsequent law school in Albany (New York) and his 1856 was admitted to the bar he began in Juneau (Wisconsin ) to work in this profession. Between 1861 and 1862 he was district attorney in Jefferson County; in the years 1865 and 1866 he served as Deputy Attorney General of Wisconsin. In 1866 he moved to Chicago, where he practiced law. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1878 Barber was in the third electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lorenz Brentano on March 4, 1879. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1880, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1881.

Between 1881 and 1888 Hiram Barber worked in Mitchell in the former Dakota Territory, which now belongs to the state of South Dakota, in the Cadastral Agency (receiver of the Land Office ). He then returned to Chicago, where he practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1891 and 1914 he worked as a Master in Chancery of the Superior Court in Cook County. Then he withdrew into retirement. Hiram Barber died on August 5, 1924 in Lake Geneva.