Calvin Barton

{{Short description|American mayor}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Calvin L. Barton | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1874|05|16}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1939|05|10|1874|05|16}}<ref name="can1939">Cornell Alumni News (June 15, 1939) Vol. 41 No. 32 – Necrology</ref> | death_place = | resting_place = | office = Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut | order = 18th | term_start = 1921 | term_end = 1923 | predecessor = Jeremiah Donovan | successor = Thomas Robins | party = Republican | occupation = civil engineer<ref name="politicalgraveyard">{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barton.html#008.36.80 |title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Barton |author=Lawrence Kestenbaum|publisher=politicalgraveyard.com|accessdate=2015-02-05}}</ref> | alma_mater = Cornell University (1899)<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=The Cornell Civil Engineer|author=Cornell University. Association of Civil Engineers|date=1916|volume=25|publisher=Association of Civil Engineers of Cornell University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DuzNAAAAMAAJ|page=144|accessdate=2015-02-05}}</ref><ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=The Register, Cornell University|author=Cornell University|date=1899|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Gs4AAAAMAAJ|page=431|accessdate=2015-02-05}}</ref> | spouse = Nina Whitlock Bagley Barton (died 1977) <ref name="google3">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1916&dat=19770702&id=QOcgAAAAIBAJ&pg=2916,410455 |title=Obituary Mrs. Calvin Barton |accessdate=2015-02-05}}</ref> (m. September 19, 1908) | children = Bradford }}

'''Calvin Lewis Barton''' (1874 – May 10, 1939) was a one-term Republican mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut. He was the son of Lewis Barton and Caroline C. Bebee. He graduated from Cornell University in 1899 in civil engineering. He married Nina Bagley on September 19, 1908<ref name="cornell">{{cite web|url=https://dspace.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/26096/1/011_03.pdf |title=Cornell Alumni News |publisher=dspace.library.cornell.edu|accessdate=2015-02-05}}</ref>

He was president of C. L. Barton, engineers, of South Norwalk.<ref name="can1939"/> Previously he had been an engineer with various companies, including the American Bridge Company, the Phoenix Construction Company, and the McHarg-Boston Company.<ref name="can1939"/>

{{s-start}} {{succession box|title=Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut|before=Jeremiah Donovan|after=Thomas Robins|years=1921–1923}} {{s-end}}

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