{{short description|American politician}} {{Other people|David Barker}} <!-- This article was automatically created by User:polbot from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000143. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> {{Infobox officeholder | name = David Barker Jr. | image = | state1 = New Hampshire | district1 = New Hampshire | term_start1 = March 4, 1827 | term_end1 = March 3, 1829 | preceded1 = Nehemiah Eastman | succeeded1 = Joseph Hammons | office2 = Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives | term2 = 1823<br>1825-1826 | birth_date = {{birth date text|January 8, 1797}} | death_date = {{death date and age|April 1, 1834|January 8, 1797}} | birth_place = Stratham, New Hampshire | death_place = Rochester, New Hampshire | citizenship = {{US}} | parents = Col. David Barker | spouse = Mary Upham Barker | children = David Barker<br>Mary Barker | profession = {{ubl | Attorney | politician }} | party = Adams Party | alma_mater = Harvard University }}
'''David Barker Jr.''' (January 8, 1797 – April 1, 1834) was an American politician and a U.S. representative from New Hampshire.
==Early life== Born in Stratham, New Hampshire, Barker was the eldest son of Col. David Barker and at age eleven attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter. He began attending Harvard University at the age of fourteen and earned a degree in 1815. He began the study of law with John P. Hale, Esq.; earned a second degree and was admitted to the bar in 1819.<ref>{{cite book|author=New Hampshire Historical Society|title=Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, Volume 4|year=1834|publisher=Jacob B. Moore, 1834|page=36|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yBEPAAAAYAAJ&q=David+Barker%2C+Jr.&pg=PA293|accessdate=1 July 2014}}</ref>
==Career== Upon his admission to the bar, Barker began his law practice in Rochester, New Hampshire. He served as member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1823, 1825, and 1826.
Elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress, Barker served as a United States representative for New Hampshire from March 4, 1827, to March 3, 1829. He resumed the practice of law after his term in Congress and was an original member of the New Hampshire Historical Society.<ref>{{cite book|title=David Barker|year = 1834|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yBEPAAAAYAAJ&q=David+Barker%2C+Jr++New+Hampshire+Historical+Society&pg=PA293|publisher=Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society|accessdate=28 November 2013}}</ref>
==Death== Barker died in Rochester, Strafford County, New Hampshire, on April 1, 1834 (age 37 years, 83 days). He is interred at Old Rochester Cemetery, Rochester, New Hampshire.
==Family life== Barker married Mary Upham on October 2, 1823, and they had two children, David and Mary.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Upham|first1=Albert Gookin|title=Family History: Notices of the Life of John Upham, the First Inhabitant of New-England who Bore that Name: Together with an Account of Such of His Descendants as Were the Ancestors of Hon. Nathaniel Upham ... with a Short Sketch of the Life of the Latter|year=1845|publisher=Asa McFarland, 1845|page=77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tyswAAAAYAAJ&q=David+Barker%2C+Jr.&pg=PA77|accessdate=1 July 2014}}</ref>
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==External links== {{CongBio|B000143}}
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{{S-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{succession box | before=Henry Moore Baker | title=U.S. Representative from New Hampshire | years=1827—1829 | after=Ichabod Bartlett}} {{S-end}}
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