Samuel Fleming Barr
{{Short description|American politician (1829–1919)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1829|06|15}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1919|05|29|1829|06|15}}
| birth_place = near Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland
| death_place = San Diego, California, U.S.
| state = Pennsylvania
| district = 14th
| term_start = March 4, 1881
| term_end = March 3, 1885
| preceded = John W. Killinger
| succeeded = Franklin Bound
| party = Republican
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Samuel Fleming Barr (June 15, 1829{{spnd}}May 29, 1919) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Samuel F. Barr was born near Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland. He immigrated to the United States in 1831 with his parents, who settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools, and worked as a freight agent of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad in 1855 and 1856. Early in the United States Civil War was employed upon government railways in and about Washington, D.C. He worked as editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph from 1873 to 1878.
Barr was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884. He retired, spending winters in San Diego, California, and summers in Seal Harbor, Maine. He died in San Diego in 1919. Interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Sources
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- [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html The Political Graveyard]
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Category:Irish emigrants to the United States
Category:Politicians from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Category:People from Mount Desert Island
Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Category:People from Coleraine, County Londonderry
Category:19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives