John Richard Barret

John Richard Barret ( born August 21, 1825 Greensburg, Kentucky, † November 2, 1903 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1861 he represented a break with the state of Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Barret attended the public schools of his home and then the Centre College in Danville. In 1839 he moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he studied at the Saint Louis University until 1843. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1852 he succeeded the catchment into the House of Representatives of Missouri, in which he was re-elected in the sequence three times. Barret was also a member of the Agricultural Society of St. Louis, whose events he organized.

In the congressional elections of 1858 Barret was the first electoral district of Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Francis Preston Blair took on 4 March 1859 that he had beaten in the election. Blair laid but against the outcome of the election opposition a. As this was met, Barret had his mandate on June 8, 1860 again cede to Blair. Since this but his hand back soon stepped on it, Barret was able to take his seat on December 3, 1860 again and end the legislative session until March 3, 1861. This period was marked by tensions in the immediate run-up to the Civil War. In the elections of 1860 Barret lost again against Blair, who once again his successor in Congress was on March 4, 1861.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives John Barret moved to New York, where he pursued various private activities. Politically, he is no more have appeared. He died on November 2, 1903 in New York and was buried in Louisville.