John Strode Barbour (August 10, 1866 - May 6, 1952) is a Virginia lawyer, businessman and politician.
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Early life and education
Barbour was born on August 10, 1866 at Beauregard in Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Virginia. The political family of Barbour, was one of Virginia's First Families. The father of his lawyer, James Barbour, continued his family's political involvement, and became a major in the Confederate Army of the State during the American Civil War. His mother was Fanny Thomas Beckham, and also gave birth to a daughter, Mrs. C.B. Wallace from Nashville, Tennessee.
Barbour's private education includes Charles Town's Charles Academy, William Hartman Kable in Charles Town, West Virginia. In 1884, Barbour began reading the law at John Franklin Rixey's law office in Culpeper, Virginia. Two years later, Barbour started a weekly newspaper, Piedmont Advance, which operated for about two years. In 1887 Barbour began studying at law school at the University of Virginia and graduated in 1888.
Barbour married Mary B. Grimsley, the daughter of Culpeper judging Daniel A. Grimsley on April 4, 1894. They had no children.
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Careers
Upon entering the Virginia bar, 21, Barbour returned to Culpeper and joined Rixey's legal practice when Rixey was elected to the United States House of Representatives for the 8th congressional district in Virginia.
From 1897 to 1898, Barbour served as mayor of Culpeper. Barbour was elected on May 23, 1901 to represent Culpeper County at the Constitutional Convention in Richmond, Virginia. At the convention on 29 May 1902, Barbour decided to declare a new constitution in force without handing it over to voters for ratification.
Barbour moved to Fairfax County, Virginia in 1907 where he started a law firm with R. Walton Moore (former Assistant Secretary of State) and Thomas R. Keith, who had become Barbour, Garnett, Pickett & amp; Keith at the time of his death. Company clients include Potomac Power Company and Washington & amp; Barbour Electric Co. also cared for a herd of dairy cattle on its territory in Fairfax County and founded the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Association. From 1932 to 1949, Barbour was a member of the Virginia State Library council.
While living in Fairfax, Virginia, Barbour built a house he called "the Oaks" but is now called "Barbour House".
Death
One of the last members of the Virginia Constitution Convention of 1902, Barbour died after a long illness at Doctor's Hospital in Washington, DC on May 6, 1952. After the funeral at his home in Fairfax, he was interred in a family plot at Fairview Cemetery. in Culpeper.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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