J. Allen Barber

Joel Allen Barber ( born January 17, 1809 in Georgia, Franklin County, Vermont, † June 17, 1881 in Lancaster, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1875 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Allen Barber attended the common schools and then studied at the University of Vermont in Burlington. He then worked as a teacher in Prince George's County in Maryland. After studying law and its made ​​in 1834 admitted to the bar he began in Fairfield to work in his new profession. In 1837 he moved to Lancaster in Wisconsin Territory, where he also practiced law. In the local Grant County, he worked for several years in administration. He also was there also District Attorney.

In 1846, Barber was a delegate to the first Constituent Assembly of the future state of Wisconsin. After the establishment of this state he was in the years 1852, 1853, 1863 and 1864 deputy in the Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1864 he was its president. 1856 and 1857 belonged to the Senate Barber of Wisconsin. He was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In the congressional elections of 1870 he was in the third electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Amasa Cobb on March 4, 1871. After a re-election in 1872 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1875 two legislative sessions.

In 1874, Allen Barber opted not to run again for the U.S. House of Representatives. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. He died on 17 June 1881 in Lancaster.

Georgia (Vermont) Franklin County (Vermont) Lancaster (Wisconsin) Burlington (Vermont) Fairfield (Vermont) Grant County (Wisconsin) Wisconsin State Senate George W. Jones James Duane Doty Henry Dodge Morgan Lewis Martin John Hubbard Tweedy Henry Hastings Sibley William Pitt Lynde Charles Durkee Daniel Wells, Jr. John F. Potter James S. Brown Halbert E. Paine Alexander Mitchell (politician) Charles G. Williams John Winans Lucien B. Caswell Clinton Babbitt Henry Allen Cooper Clifford E. Randall George Washington Blanchard Stephen Bolles Lawrence H. Smith Gerald T. Flynn Henry C. Schadeberg Lynn E. Stalbaum Peter W. Barca Mark Neumann Paul Ryan Mason C. Darling Orsamus Cole Ben C. Eastman Cadwallader C. Washburn Walter D. McIndoe Ithamar Sloan Benjamin F. Hopkins David Atwood Gerry Whiting Hazelton Daniel H. Sumner Edward S. Bragg Richard W. Guenther Charles Barwig Edward Sauerhering Herman Dahle Henry Cullen Adams John M. Nelson Michael E. Burke Edward Voigt Charles A. Kading Charles W. Henney Harry Sauthoff Charles Hawks, Jr. Robert Kirkland Henry Glenn Robert Davis Donald Edgar Tewes Scott L. Klug Tammy Baldwin Mark Pocan John B. Macy Charles Billinghurst Charles H. Larrabee A. Scott Sloan Henry S. Magoon George Cochrane Hazelton Burr W. Jones Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Allen R. Bushnell Joseph W. Babcock James William Murphy Arthur W. Kopp James G. Monahan Gardner R. Withrow Harry W. Griswold William H. Stevenson Alvin Baldus Ron Kind Charles A. Eldredge Peter V. Deuster Isaac W. Van Schaick Henry Smith (Wisconsin) John L. Mitchell Peter J. Somers William J. Cary John C. Kleczka John C. Schafer Raymond Joseph Cannon Thaddeus Wasielewski John C. Brophy Clement J. Zablocki Jerry Kleczka Gwen Moore Ezra Wheeler Philetus Sawyer Samuel D. Burchard Joseph Rankin George H. Brickner Samuel S. Barney William H. Stafford Lewis D. Thill Howard J. McMurray Andrew Biemiller Charles J. Kersten Henry S. Reuss Jim Moody Alanson M. Kimball Gabriel Bouck Charles B. Clark Lucas M. Miller Owen A. Wells Samuel A. Cook James H. Davidson Charles H. Weisse Michael Reilly Florian Lampert Frank Bateman Keefe William Van Pelt John Abner Race William A. Steiger Tom Petri Herman L. Humphrey Gilbert M. Woodward Ormsby B. Thomas Frank P. Coburn George B. Shaw Michael Griffin (politician) John J. Esch Joseph D. Beck Merlin Hull Gerald J. Boileau Dave Obey Sean Duffy Alexander S. McDill George W. Cate Thaddeus C. Pound William T. Price Hugh H. Price Nils P. Haugen Lyman E. Barnes Edward S. Minor Edward E. Browne James F. Hughes George J. Schneider Joshua L. Johns John W. Byrnes Harold Vernon Froehlich Robert John Cornell Toby Roth Jay W. Johnson Mark Andrew Green Steve Kagen Isaac Stephenson Thomas Lynch (congressman) Alexander Stewart (American politician) Webster E. Brown David G. Classon James A. Frear Lester Johnson (politician) Bob Kasten John J. Jenkins Elmer A. Morse Hubert H. Peavey Bernard J. Gehrmann Irvine Lenroot Adolphus Peter Nelson
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