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Robert Raymond Barry
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 25th district
In office
January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965
Preceded byPaul A. Fino
Succeeded byRichard Ottinger
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 27th district
In office
January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1963
Preceded byRalph W. Gwinn
Succeeded byKatharine St. George
Personal details
Born(1915-05-15)May 15, 1915
Omaha, Nebraska
DiedJune 14, 1988(1988-06-14) (aged 73)
Redwood City, California
Political partyRepublican Party
SpouseAnne Rogers Benjamin Barry
ChildrenCynthia Barry Roger Barry
Alma materHamilton College

Robert Raymond Barry (May 15, 1915 – June 14, 1988) was an American politician and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

Biography

Barry was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He received early education in the public schools of Evanston, Illinois; attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, from 1933 until 1936; and the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College in 1937. He studied law and finance at New York University Graduate School in 1938. He married Anne Rogers Benjamin on July 19, 1945.

Career

Barry engaged in investment banking with Kidder, Peabody & Company and commercial banking with Manufacturers Trust Company, in 1938 and 1939. He was an executive of Bendix Aviation Corporation from 1940 to 1943, and an executive with Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company from 1945 to 1950. He also engaged in farming, mining, and real-estate development.

During World War II Barry worked in the office of the Undersecretary of the Navy. He served on the political staffs of Wendell Willkie, Governor Thomas Dewey and Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was the United States delegate to several NATO Parliamentary Assemblies and to UNESCO. He was chairman of the United Nations Committee to Build World House at the United Nations; mining operations at Portola, California, and land development at Salton Sea, California.[1]

Elected as a Republican to represent the 27th district of New York, in the Eighty-sixth Congress and reelected for the Eighty-seventh Congress; Barry was elected to represent the 25th district for the Eighty-eighth Congress. He served from January 3, 1959 to January 3, 1965;[2] and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress. An unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress, he was a member of the Farm Bureau, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and Alpha Delta Phi.

Death

Barry died in Redwood City, California, San Mateo County, California, on June 14, 1988 (age 73 years, 30 days). The location of his interrment is unknown.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Robert R. Barry". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  2. ^ "Robert R. Barry". Govtrack US Congress. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  3. ^ "Robert R. Barry". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 27th congressional district
1959–1963 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 25th congressional district
1963–1965 		Succeeded by
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