Frederick G. Barry
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Frederick George Barry (January 12, 1845 – May 7, 1909) was an American Civil War veteran, lawyer, and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Mississippi from 1885 to 1889.
Biography
Born in Woodbury, Tennessee, Barry received a limited education.
Civil War
He served as a private in Company E, Eighth Confederate Cavalry, Col. William B. Wade's regiment, during the Civil War.
Early career
Returning to private life, he studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Aberdeen, Mississippi. He moved to West Point, Mississippi, in 1873 and continued the practice of law, also serving as member of the Mississippi State Senate from 1875 to 1879.
Congress
Barry was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1889). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1888.
Later career and death
He then resumed the practice of law in West Point, where he died at the age of 64. He was interred in Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, Mississippi.
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- 1845 births
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- People from Woodbury, Tennessee
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi
- Democratic Party Mississippi state senators
- People from West Point, Mississippi
- Confederate States Army soldiers
- 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
- 19th-century members of the Mississippi Legislature