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Senate Years of Service: 1815-1816 Party: Democratic Republican
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BARRY, William Taylor, a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born near Lunenburg,
Lunenburg County, Va., February 5, 1784; moved to Fayette County, Ky., in 1796
with his parents; attended the common schools, Pisgah Academy and Kentucky
Academy in Woodford County, Ky., Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky., and
graduated from William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va., in 1803; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1805 and commenced practice at Lexington, Ky.;
appointed Commonwealth attorney; member, State house of representatives 1807;
elected as a Democratic Republican to the Eleventh Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Benjamin Howard and served from August 8, 1810, to
March 3, 1811; served in the military during the War of 1812; member, State
house of representatives 1814 and was chosen speaker; elected as a Democratic
Republican to the United States Senate on December 16, 1814, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of George M. Bibb, and served from February 2, 1815, until his
resignation effective May 1, 1816, having been appointed to a judicial
position; appointed judge of the circuit court for the eleventh district of
Kentucky 1816-1817; member, State senate 1817-1821; elected lieutenant governor
of Kentucky in 1820; professor of law and politics at Transylvania University
1822; secretary of State of Kentucky 1824; appointed chief justice of the State
court of appeals 1825; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election as
Governor of Kentucky in 1828; appointed Postmaster General by President Andrew
Jackson March 9, 1829, and served until April 10, 1835, when he resigned;
appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain May 1,
1835; died in Liverpool, England, August 30, 1835, while in route to Madrid,
Spain; interment in England; reinterment in the State Cemetery at Frankfort,
Ky., 1854.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography.
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