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Born in Sheffield, Massachusetts on September 11, 1796, Barnard was the son of Timothy and Phebe (Dewey) Barnard.
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Born in Sheffield, Massachusetts on September 11, 1796, Barnard was the son of Timothy and Phebe (Dewey) Barnard.
Through the influence of his father, who was a county judge, he spent two years in the office of the county clerk at Canandaigua, and then was sent to prepare for college at Lenox Academy, Berkshire County, Massachussets In 1818 he graduated from Williams College, a tall, slim, delicate young man, and in 1821 commenced to practise law in Rochester, New York.
Four years later he was elected prosecuting attorney for Monroe County and in 1827 was sent to Congress, where for one term he participated in the discussions of slavery, the tariff, and the Cumberland Road. Never in robust health, during 1830-31 he spent five months recuperating in Europe, where he studied the Revolution of 1830 and wrote letters for a Rochester newspaper. Changing his residence to Albany in 1832 he took a deep interest in state and national politics. Firm in his convictions and an intense partisan, he was yet in no sense a demagogue. Defeated as a Whig for Congress in 1834, he was elected to the state Assembly in 1837, where he was recognized as an authority on finance, education, and internal improvements.
Returned to Congress as a Whig in 1839, he served for six years and in 1845 declined reëlection. His interest centered in such problems as internal improvements, finance, the annexation of Texas, and the tariff, and for four years he was chairman of the judiciary committee. Upon returning to Albany he devoted himself to the legal profession in which he attained eminence, and to the writing of historical brochures which brought him considerable reputation. From his pen appeared Lecture on the Character and Services of James Madison (1837), Discourse on the Life, Character, and Services of Stephen Van Rensselaer (1839), The Colony of Rensselaerwyck (1839), The Anti-Rent Movement (1846), Treatment of General Scott (1848), Discourse on the Life of Ambrose Spencer (1849), and Trinity Church (1857).
The crowning honor of his career came in 1850, when President Fillmore sent him as minister to Prussia, a post he filled for three years. While abroad he studied the results of the Revolution of 1848 and wrote a book on the Political Aspects and Prospects in Europe (1854). His ablest legal argument was on "The Sovereignty of the States over Their Navigable Waters" in connection with the Albany Bridge Case in 1860. He died at Albany just as the Civil War was breaking out.
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In public life he was trusted by his party friends and respected by his opponents. His acquaintances spoke of him as a man gracious and cultured, attractive in personal intercourse, and of an amiable disposition.
He was twice married, first to Sara Livingstone at Rochester in 1825 and secondly to Catherine Walsh at Albany in 1832.