{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Noyes Barber | state = Connecticut | district = {{ushr|CT|AL|at-large}} | term_start1 = March 4, 1821 | term_end1 = March 3, 1835 | predecessor1 = Elisha Phelps | successor1 = Isaac Toucey | office2 = Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives | term2 = 1818 | birth_date = {{birth date|1781|4|28}} | birth_place = Groton | death_date = {{death date and age|1844|1|3|1781|4|28}} | death_place = Groton | resting_place = Starr Cemetery, Groton | spouse = Catherine Burdick Barber | children = 3 | alma_mater = | occupation = Merchant, lawyer, politician | party = Democratic <!--Military service--> | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|Connecticut}}<br/>{{flagicon|USA|1812}} United States | branch = | service_years = | rank = | unit = 8th Connecticut Regiment | commands = | battles = War of 1812 }}
'''Noyes Barber''' (April 28, 1781 – January 3, 1844) was an American military veteran and politician who served seven terms as a United States representative from Connecticut from 1821 to 1835.
==Biography== Barber was born in Groton, Connecticut son of John and Elizabeth (Denison) Barber. He attended the common schools<ref>{{cite web|title=Noyes Barber|url=http://www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/ledger/students/3122|publisher=Litchfield Historical Society|accessdate=13 January 2013}}</ref> and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was a major of the Eighth Connecticut Regiment in the War of 1812 where he was detailed to defend the coast towns during the blockade by the British Fleet.<ref>{{cite web|title=Noyes Barber|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bankson-barbosa.html|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=13 January 2013}}</ref> He married Catherine Burdick in 1801 and they had two children, Adelaide Barber & Betsey Ann Barber Copp. Catherine died in 1813 and he married Mary Chester Smith in 1814 and they had two children, Mary Elizabeth Barber Whitman and John Starr Barber.
==Career== Barber was a member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives in 1818.
=== Congress === He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth, an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth, and an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through the Twenty-third Congresses, serving from March 4, 1821 to March 3, 1835.<ref>{{cite web|title=Noyes Barber|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/noyes_barber/401126|publisher=Govtrack US Congress|accessdate=13 January 2013}}</ref> He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress.
=== After Congress === He resumed mercantile pursuits and was also a member of all Whig conventions from 1836.
==Death== Barber died in Groton on January 3, 1844 (age 62 years, 250 days). He is interred at Starr Cemetery, Groton, Connecticut.<ref>{{cite web|title=Noyes Barber|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bankson-barbosa.html|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=13 January 2013}}</ref> He was the uncle of both Edwin Barber Morgan and Christopher Morgan. Both of these men served as Representatives in the United States Congress.
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==External links== {{CongBio|B000125}} * {{cite BDA1906 |wstitle= Barber, Noyes |volume= 1 |page = 209 |short=}} *{{Find a Grave|6902388}}
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