Lucien Barbour

Lucien Barbour ( born March 4, 1811 in Canton, Connecticut; † July 19, 1880 in Indianapolis, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lucien Barbour studied until 1837 at Amherst College in Massachusetts. In the year 1837 he moved to Madison in Indiana. After a subsequent law degree in 1839 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Indianapolis to work in this profession. After that, he was repeatedly served as mediator between the state government of Indiana and private companies. Later he was appointed by President James K. Polk to the Federal Attorney for Indiana. In 1852 he was member of a commission to revise the laws of the state of Indiana. Politically, he joined in the early 1850s, the short-lived opposition party on.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Barbour was the sixth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas A. Hendricks on March 4, 1855. Since he resigned in 1856 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1857. This was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War. Later, Barbour joined the Republican Party.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Lucien Barbour practiced again as a lawyer in Indianapolis. There he is on July 19, 1880 and passed away.