John Barney

John Barney (* January 18, 1785 in Baltimore, Maryland, † January 26, 1857 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1829 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Information on youth and education of John Barney are not known. In the final phase of the British - American War he served as a captain in the years 1814 and 1815 in the U.S. Army. After that, he embarked on a political career. Between 1820 and 1821 Barney sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. In 1822 he ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives. During the 1820s he joined the movement to President John Quincy Adams and was a member of the short-lived National Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1824 Barney was selected in the fifth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1825. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1829 two legislative sessions. These were characterized by the fierce debate between supporters and opponents of the future President Andrew Jackson. In 1828, Barney was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, John Barney retired from politics and devoted himself to literary activities. He died on 26 January 1857 in the German capital Washington and was buried in Baltimore.