# John S. Barbour

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American politician (1790–1855)

For other people called John Strode Barbour, see [John Strode Barbour (disambiguation)](/source/John_Strode_Barbour_(disambiguation)).

John Strode Barbour Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from the Culpeper district In office May 17, 1813 – December 1, 1833 Serving with Zephaniah Turner, John Turner Preceded by William Champe Carter Succeeded by John A. Thornton Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from the Culpeper district In office December 4, 1820 – November 20, 1823 Serving with George Ficklin, Daniel Ward Preceded by Ambrose P. Hill Succeeded by Ambrose P. Hill Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from the Culpeper district In office December 3, 1833 – November 30, 1834 Preceded by John S. Pendleton Succeeded by Edmund Broadus Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 15th district In office March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1833 Preceded by George Tucker Succeeded by Edward Lucas Personal details Born (1790-08-08)August 8, 1790 Brandy Station, Virginia, US Died January 12, 1855(1855-01-12) (aged 64) Culpeper, Virginia, US Party Jacksonian Democrat Spouse Elizabeth Byrne Profession politician, lawyer, farmer

**John Strode Barbour Sr.** (August 8, 1790 – January 12, 1855) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from [Virginia](/source/Virginia). He was the father of [John Strode Barbour Jr.](/source/John_S._Barbour_Jr.) and the first cousin of [James Barbour](/source/James_Barbour) and [Philip P. Barbour](/source/Philip_P._Barbour).

## Early and family life

Born at "Fleetwood" near [Brandy Station, Virginia](/source/Brandy_Station%2C_Virginia), Barbour attended private schools as a child, then the [College of William and Mary](/source/College_of_William_and_Mary), from which he graduated in 1808.[1]

He married Elizabeth Byrne and had two sons (J.S. Barbour Jr. and Edwin Barbour) and two daughters (Sallie and Elizabeth Bryne Barbour Thompson).[2] He was a slave owner.[3][4]

## Career

After reading law and being admitted to the bar in 1811, Barbour commenced practice in [Culpeper, Virginia](/source/Culpeper%2C_Virginia). He served in the [War of 1812](/source/War_of_1812) as an [aide-de-camp](/source/Aide-de-camp).

## Political career

Barbour was elected and re-elected to the [Virginia House of Delegates](/source/Virginia_House_of_Delegates), serving from 1813 to 1816 and again from 1820 to 1823.[5] Barbour was elected a [Crawford Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican_Party_(United_States)) and [Jacksonian](/source/Jacksonian_democracy) to the [United States House of Representatives](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives) in 1822, serving from 1823 to 1833, when he was succeeded by fellow Whig [John M. Patton](/source/John_M._Patton) of [Fredericksburg, Virginia](/source/Fredericksburg%2C_Virginia). The elder Barbour was a member of the [Virginia Constitutional Convention](/source/Constitutional_convention_(political_meeting)) in 1829 and 1830, and returned to the House of Delegates for the final time in 1833 and 1834.[6]

He helped found Fairfax Academy in Culpeper in 1844.[7] Three years later his son John S. Barbour Jr. was elected to represent Culpeper County in the Virginia House of Delegates, continuing his father's tradition.[8]

Barbour Sr. was chairman of the [Democratic National Convention](/source/1852_Democratic_National_Convention) in 1852 and afterward resumed practicing law

## Death and legacy

Barbour died at his estate called "Fleetwood" near Culpeper, Virginia, on January 12, 1855. He was interred on the estate in the family cemetery. In 2000, Virginia erected a historical marker noting the former family mansion, Catalpa, the birthplace of his son discussed below.[9]

Barbour's family supported the Confederacy during the American Civil War. In 1863 Fleetwood Hill was part of the [Battle of Brandy Station](/source/Battle_of_Brandy_Station) (land acquired by the Civil War Trust in 2013, and expected to be restored and interpreted). The [Barbour family](/source/Barbour_family) lost their slaves in the aftermath, but regained political prominence after Reconstruction ended. His son [John S. Barbour Jr.](/source/John_S._Barbour_Jr.) (who had served in the Virginia House of Delegates beginning in 1847 and had become President of the [Orange and Alexandria Railroad](/source/Orange_and_Alexandria_Railroad) in 1852), helped organize the demise of the [Readjuster Party](/source/Readjuster_Party) and establish a [Democratic](/source/Democratic_Party_(USA)) political organization which retained power in Virginia for decades (J.S. Barbour Jr. serving in the U.S. House of Representatives 1881–1886, and in the U.S. Senate from 1889 to 1892). His namesake [J. S. B. Thompson](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Strode_Barbour_Thompson&action=edit&redlink=1) married his daughter Eliza Byrne Barbour in 1850, worked for various railroads (including the [Southern Railway](/source/Southern_Railway_(U.S.))),[10] and continued to exercise political influence (helping [Thomas S. Martin](/source/Thomas_S._Martin) win election as U.S. Senator in 1893 and accused of corruption in 1911). His grandson [John Strode Barbour](/source/John_Strode_Barbour_(1866%E2%80%931952)) became a prominent lawyer, newspaper editor and Culpeper's mayor (although he later moved to [Fairfax County, Virginia](/source/Fairfax_County%2C_Virginia)).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Eugene M. Scheel, Culpeper: A Virginia County's History through 1920 (Culpeper, The Culpeper Historical Society 1982), p. 75

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Loading..."](https://web.archive.org/web/20170510154809/http://arlisherring.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I104436&tree=Herring&PHPSESSID=430676eab203645b11a99e0180abc15d) *arlisherring.com*. Archived from [the original](http://arlisherring.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I104436&tree=Herring&PHPSESSID=430676eab203645b11a99e0180abc15d) on May 10, 2017. Retrieved June 29, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Congress slaveowners"](https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners), *The Washington Post*, January 19, 2022, retrieved January 24, 2022

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["A Guide to the Papers of the Barbour Family 1793-1941 Barbour Family, Papers of 1486"](https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu02700.xml). *ead.lib.virginia.edu*. Retrieved January 24, 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Cynthia Miller Leonard, Virginia's General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond, Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 273, 277, 281, 303, 308, 313

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Leonard pp. 354, 367

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Scheel, p. 71

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Scheel p. 154

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["John S. Barbour's Birthplace Historical Marker"](https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=8416). *www.hmdb.org*. Retrieved June 29, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** [*Eminent and Representative Men of Virginia and the District of Columbia in the Nineteenth Century: With a Concise Historical Sketch of Virginia*](https://books.google.com/books?id=_iRPAAAAYAAJ&dq=john+strode+barbour+thompson&pg=PA578). Brant & Fuller. 1893.

## External links

- United States Congress. ["John S. Barbour (id: B000128)"](http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000128). *[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress](/source/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress)*.

U.S. House of Representatives Preceded by George Tucker Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 15th congressional district March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1833 (obsolete district) Succeeded by Edward Lucas

This article incorporates [public domain material](/source/Copyright_status_of_works_by_the_federal_government_of_the_United_States) from [*Biographical Directory of the United States Congress*](http://bioguide.congress.gov). [Federal government of the United States](/source/Federal_government_of_the_United_States).

v t e United States representatives from Virginia's 15th congressional district Madison Dawson Randolph Kerr Clay Kerr Lewis Tucker Barbour E. Lucas Mason W. Lucas Barton Steenrod Brown Newman Haymond Thompson Clemens (inactive 1853–present) All Virginia districts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · at-large

v t e Barbour family First generation James Barbour I Second generation James Barbour II Third generation James Barbour III Thomas Barbour (1735–1825) Fourth generation Mordecai Barbour (1763–1846) James Barbour (1775–1842) Philip P. Barbour (1783–1841) Spouses of fourth-generation Barbours Daniel Bryan Fifth generation John Strode Barbour (1790–1855) Sextus Barbour (1814–1848) Thomas Barbour Bryan (1828–1906) Spouses of fifth-generation Barbours Jedediah Hyde Lathrop Andrew Wylie Sixth generation John Strode Barbour Jr. (1820–1892) James Barbour (1828–1895) Alfred Madison Barbour (1829-1866) Charles Page Bryan (1855–1915) Benjamin Hardin Helm (1831–1863) Lucinda Barbour Helm (1839–1897) Bryan Lathrop (1844–1916) Barbour Lathrop (1847–1927) Florence Lathrop Field Page (1858–1921) Jennie Byrd Bryan Payne (1857-1919) David S. Walker (1815–1891) Horace Wylie (1868–1960) Spouses of sixth-generation Barbours Henry Field Thomas Nelson Page John Barton Payne Elinor Wylie Seventh generation John Strode Barbour (1866–1952) Philip Lemont Barbour (1898-1980) Eighth generation Richard K. Call (1792-1862) Andrew Wylie (b. 1947) Ninth generation Wilkinson Call (1834–1910) Barbour family residences Barbour House Barboursville Beauregard Catalpa Clover Hill Frascati

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