Samuel Fleming Barr

Samuel Fleming Barr ( born June 15, 1829 in Coleraine, UK, † May 29, 1919 in San Diego, California ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1885 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

1831 came Samuel Barr with his family from Northern Ireland to Harrisburg in Pennsylvania, where he attended the public schools. In the years 1855 and 1856 he worked as a freight agent for the railroad company Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad. At the beginning of the Civil War he worked for the railway is under government control in the metropolitan area of ​​the federal capital, Washington DC Later, Barr went into the newspaper business. Between 1873 and 1878 he gave the Harrisburg Telegraph out. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1880, Barr was elected in the 14th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of John Weinland Killinger on March 4, 1881. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1885 two legislative sessions. In 1884 he gave up another candidacy.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Samuel Barr withdrew into retirement, he spent alternately in San Diego and in Seal Harbor, Maine. He died on 29 May 1919 in San Diego, where he was also buried.