Samuel J. Barrows

Samuel June Barrows ( born May 26, 1845 in New York City; † April 21, 1909 ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Barrows attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1871, the Harvard Divinity School. During this time he worked in Boston as a journalist for the New York Tribune newspaper. In 1873 and 1874 he took part in two Indian campaigns. He served in 1874 under General George Armstrong Custer. From 1876 to 1881 Barrows was pastor in Dorchester, a suburb of Boston. Then he gave 16 years the newspaper out Christian Register. In the years 1895, 1900 and 1905, he was an American representative at an international conference prison; In 1910 he initiated this event. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Barrows was in the tenth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Harrison Henry Atwood on March 4, 1897. Since he has not been confirmed in 1898, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1899. This was marked by the events of the Spanish-American War. Between 1899 and 1909 Samuel Barrows was secretary of the New York Prison Association. He died on April 21, 1909 in New York.

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