Thomas J. Barr

Thomas Jefferson Barr ( * 1812 in New York City; † March 27, 1881 ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jefferson, Thomas Barr was born in the year of the outbreak of the British -American War in New York City and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools. In 1835 he moved to Scotch Plains ( New Jersey ), where he led a roadhouse. He returned in 1842 to New York City back. As deputy alderman, he worked in the years 1849 and 1850 in the sixth district and as Alderman in the years 1852 and 1853. Then he sat in the years 1854 and 1855 in the Senate from New York.

On January 6, 1859, he was an independent Democrat in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of John Kelly. He was then elected to a full term in the 36th Congress. Since he gave up for reelection in 1860, he retired after March 3, 1861 from the Congress.

About a month later the Civil War broke out. In 1870 he was appointed police commissioner in New York City, a position he held until 1873, when the Police Department was abolished. He then worked at the customs office ( customs house ). He died on March 27, 1881 in New York City and was buried in Calvary Cemetery on Long Iceland.