William Taylor Barry was an American statesman and jurist.
Education
He attended the common schools, Pisgah Academy and Kentucky Academy in Woodford County, Transylvania University at Lexington and graduated from William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Virginia in 1803, after which studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1805.
Career
He commenced practice at Jessamine County, Kentucky and then at Lexington. Political life He was United States. Postmaster General in Andrew Jackson"s administration from 1829 to 1835. Appointments and awards Societies Personal Barry was an uncle to Kentucky governor Luke P. Blackburn.
William T. Barry at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Membership
He was a member of Kentucky House of Representatives in 1807, a member of the United States. House of Representatives from 1810 to 1811, served in the War of 1812, was a United States. Senator from Kentucky, 1814 to 1816. Then a member of the Kentucky Senate, 1817 to 1821, and the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, 1820 to 1824, then Secretary of State of Kentucky, 1824 to 1825, and a candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 1828. And was the only member of Jackson"s original Cabinet not to resign as a result of the Petticoat Affair, which involved the social ostracism of Margaret O"Neill Eaton, the wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton by a coalition of Cabinet members wives led by Second Lady Floride Calhoun.