{{Short description|American journalist and politician}} {{other people||William Barrett (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = William Emerson Barrett | image = William Emerson Barrett.png | image_size = | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = [[Massachusetts's 7th congressional district|7th]] | term_start = March 4, 1895 | term_end = March 3, 1899 | preceded = [[William Everett]] | succeeded = [[Ernest W. Roberts]] | office2 = [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] <br>11th Middlesex District<ref>{{Citation |last = Gifford | first = Stephen Nye| year = 1889 | title = A Manual for the Use of the General Court | page = 451 | publisher = Massachusetts General Court | location = Boston, Massachusetts }}</ref> | term_start2 = 1888 | term_end2 = 1894 | preceded2 = | succeeded2 = | office3 = [[List of Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives|Speaker]] of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term_start3 = 1889 | term_end3 = 1894 | preceded3 = Charles J. Noyes | succeeded3 = [[George von Lengerke Meyer]] | birth_date = December 29, 1858 | birth_place = [[Melrose, Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date = February 12, 1906 (aged 47) | death_place = [[Newton, Massachusetts]], U.S. | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | other_party = | spouse = Annie Louise Bailey (m. December 28, 1887) | relations = | children = William Emerson Barrett, Florence Barrett, Ruth Barrett, Constance Barrett | alma_mater = [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]] | occupation = | profession = | signature = William Emerson Barrett signature.png | website = | footnotes = }}

'''William Emerson Barrett''' (December 29, 1858 – February 12, 1906) was an American journalist and politician who founded ''[[The Boston Record|The Boston Evening Record]]'' was a member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] and as a [[United States representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

Barrett was born in [[Melrose, Massachusetts]] on December 29, 1858. He attended public schools, and graduated from [[Dartmouth College]] in 1880. He was assistant editor of the ''[[St. Albans Daily Messenger]]'', then joining the staff of ''The [[Boston Daily Advertiser]]''. He was [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] correspondent of the newspaper 1882–1886. He was recalled to [[Boston]] to become editor in chief. In 1888 Barrett was promoted to chief proprietor and manager of ''The Boston Daily Advertiser'' and ''[[The Boston Record|The Boston Evening Record]]''.

Barrett was a member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] from 1887 to 1892 and served as speaker the last five years. He was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1898, and returned to Boston and resumed active management of his newspaper interests. Barrett served as president of the Union Trust Co. of Boston.

Barrett died of pneumonia in [[West Newton, Massachusetts]]<ref>{{Citation | title = Death List of A Day.; William Emerson Barrett | page = 7 | work = The New York Times | date = February 13, 1906}}</ref> on February 12, 1906. His interment was in Newton Cemetery.

==See also== * [[110th Massachusetts General Court (1889)]] * [[111th Massachusetts General Court (1890)]] * [[113th Massachusetts General Court (1892)]] * [[114th Massachusetts General Court (1893)]]

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===Bibliography===

* Gifford, Stephen Nye.: ''A Manual for the Use of the General Court'' (1889) p.&nbsp;451. * [https://books.google.com/books?id=TX0DAAAAYAAJ Hill, Edwin Charles.: ''The Historical Register A Record of People Places And Events in American History'' (1921) pp. 12-14.] * ''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time''.; J. T. White company (1910) p.&nbsp;172. * [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/02/13/101830431.pdf ''The New York Times'' (February 13, 1906) ''Death List of A Day.; William Emerson Barrett'' (1906), P. 7.]

==See also== *[[Massachusetts State House]] *[[Massachusetts Senate]] *[[Massachusetts General Court]] *[[Massachusetts Government]] *[[List of speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives]] {{s-start}} {{s-par|us-ma-hs}} {{succession box | title = [[List of Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives|Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | before =[[Charles J. Noyes]] | years = 1899 &mdash; 1903 | after = [[George von Lengerke Meyer]]}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=Massachusetts | district=7 | before=[[William Everett]] | after= [[Ernest W. Roberts]] | years=March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899 }} {{s-end}}

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