Background
Barbour, John Strode was born on December 29, 1820 in Culpeper County, Virginia, United States. Son of John S. and Eliza A (Byrne) B.
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Barbour, John Strode was born on December 29, 1820 in Culpeper County, Virginia, United States. Son of John S. and Eliza A (Byrne) B.
He attended the common schools and graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
He is best remembered for taking power in Virginia from the short-lived Readjuster Party in the late 1880s, forming the first political machine of "Conservative Democrats", whose power was to last 80 years until the demise of the Byrd Organization in the late 1960s. He was admitted to the bar in 1841 and commenced practice in Culpeper. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh, and the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1881 - March 4, 1887).
There he served as chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses).
He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1886. In the late 1880s, Barbour is credited with taking on the Readjuster Party, a coalition of blacks, Republicans, and Conservative Democrats led by Harrison H. Riddleberger and William Mahone, forming the first political machine of "Conservative Democrats", whose power was to last 80 years until the demise of the Byrd Organization in the late 1960s.
Barbour was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1889, until his death in 1892 in Washington, District of Columbia He was interred in the burial ground at "Poplar Hill," Prince George"s County, Maryland.
Member Virginia House of Delegates, 1847-1851. Member United States House of Representatives from Virginia, 47th-49th congresses, 1881-1887. Member National Democratic Committee, 1884-1892.
Member United States Senate from Virginia, 1889-1892.
Married Susan Daingerfield, 1865.