Samuel S. Barney

Samuel Stebbins Barney ( born January 31, 1846 in Hartford, Washington County, Wisconsin, † December 31, 1919 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1895 and 1903 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Barney attended the public schools of his home and then the Lombard University in Galesburg ( Illinois). After that, he spent four years as a high school teacher in Hartford. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1873 admitted to the bar he began in West Bend to work in his new profession. Between 1876 and 1880, Barney was also in Washington County School Board.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated on the James G. Blaine as their presidential candidate. In the same year, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of 1894, he was then in the fifth electoral district of Wisconsin in the House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George H. Brickner on March 4, 1895. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1903 four legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898.

1902 renounced Samuel Barney on a new Congress candidacy. In the following years until 1919 he was a judge on the Court of Claims, a federal court in Washington. He died on 31 December 1919 in Milwaukee and was buried in West Bend.

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