William T. Barry

William Taylor Barry
William Taylor Barry
7th United States Postmaster General
	In office; March 9, 1829 – April 10, 1835
President	Andrew Jackson
Preceded by	John McLean
Succeeded by	Amos Kendall
16th Secretary of State of Kentucky
	In office; September 2, 1824 – February 3, 1825
Governor	Joseph Desha
Preceded by	Thomas Bell Monroe
Succeeded by	James Chamberlayne Pickett
6th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
	In office; August 29, 1820 – August 24, 1824
Governor	John Adair
Preceded by	Gabriel Slaughter
Succeeded by	Robert B. McAfee
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; from Kentucky's 5th district
	In office; August 8, 1810 – March 3, 1811
Preceded by	Benjamin Howard
Succeeded by	Henry Clay
Personal details
Born	February 5, 1784; Lunenburg, Virginia
Died	August 30, 1835 (aged 51); Liverpool, England
Political party	Democratic-Republican
Spouse(s)	Lucy Overton; Catherine Mason
Alma mater	Transylvania University; William & Mary College
Profession	Politician, Lawyer

William Taylor Barry (February 5, 1784 – August 30, 1835) was an American statesman and jurist.

History

Born near Lunenburg, Virginia, he moved to Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1796 with his parents John Barry, an American Revolutionary War veteran, and Susannah (Dozier) Barry. He attended the common schools, Pisgah Academy and Kentucky Academy in Woodford County, Transylvania University at Lexington and graduated from William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Virginia in 1803, after which studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1805. He commenced practice at Jessamine County, Kentucky and then at Lexington.

He was a member of Kentucky House of Representatives in 1807, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1810 to 1811, served in the War of 1812, was a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1814 to 1816; then a member of the Kentucky Senate, 1817 to 1821, and the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, 1820 to 1824, then Secretary of State of Kentucky, 1824 to 1825, and a candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 1828. He was U.S. Postmaster General in Andrew Jackson's administration from 1829 to 1835. and was the only member of Jackson's original Cabinet not to resign as a result of the Petticoat Affair, which involved the social ostracism of Margaret O'Neill Eaton, the wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton by a coalition of Cabinet members wives led by Second Lady Floride Calhoun.

He was appointed ambassador to Spain, but died en route to his post, while stopped in Liverpool, England August 30, 1835. He was originally interred and a cenotaph still stands at St. James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England; he was reinterred in 1854 at Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky.

During the 1820s, Barry was a member of the prestigious society, Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, who counted among their members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions.^[2]

Barry was an uncle to Kentucky governor Luke P. Blackburn.^[3]

Political offices
Preceded by Gabriel Slaughter	Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky 1820–1824	Succeeded by Robert B. McAfee
Preceded by John McLean	United States Postmaster General Served under: Andrew Jackson 1829–1835	Succeeded by Amos Kendall
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Benjamin Howard	Member from Kentucky's 5th congressional district 1810–1811	Succeeded by Henry Clay
U.S. Senate
Preceded by George Walker	Senator from Kentucky (Class 2) 1814–1816 Served alongside: Jesse Bledsoe, Isham Talbot	Succeeded by Martin D. Hardin
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Cornelius P. Van Ness	United States Minister to Spain 1835	Succeeded by John H. Eaton

v t e United States senators from Kentucky
Class 2	Brown Thruston Clay Bibb Walker Barry Hardin Crittenden Johnson Bibb Crittenden Morehead J. Underwood Thompson Powell Guthrie McCreery Stevenson Beck Carlisle Lindsay Blackburn Paynter James Martin Stanley Sackett Robsion Williamson M. Logan Chandler Stanfill Cooper Chapman T. Underwood Cooper Barkley Humphreys Cooper Huddleston McConnell
Class 3	Edwards Marshall J. Breckinridge Adair Clay Pope Bledsoe Talbot W. Logan Talbot Rowan Clay Crittenden Metcalfe Clay Meriwether Dixon Crittenden J. C. Breckinridge Davis Machen McCreery Williams Blackburn Deboe McCreary Bradley Camden Beckham Ernst Barkley Withers Clements Morton Cook Ford Bunning Paul

v t e United States Postmasters General
Confederal	Franklin Bache Hazard
Federal	Osgood Pickering Habersham G. Granger Meigs McLean
Cabinet level Post Office Department	Barry Kendall Niles F. Granger Wickliffe Johnson Collamer Hall Hubbard Campbell A. Brown Holt King Blair Dennison Randall Creswell Marshall Jewell Tyner Key Maynard James Howe Gresham Hatton Vilas Dickinson Wanamaker Bissell Wilson Gary Smith Payne Wynne Cortelyou Meyer Hitchcock Burleson Hays Work New W. Brown Farley Walker Hannegan Donaldson Summerfield Day Gronouski O'Brien Watson Blount
U.S. Postal Service	Blount Klassen Bailar Bolger Carlin Casey Tisch Frank Runyon Henderson Potter Donahoe Brennan DeJoy

v t e Cabinet of President Andrew Jackson (1829–1837)
Secretary of State	Martin Van Buren (1829–1831) Edward Livingston (1831–1833) Louis McLane (1833–1834) John Forsyth (1834–1837)
Secretary of the Treasury	Samuel D. Ingham (1829–1831) Louis McLane (1831–1833) William J. Duane (1833) Roger B. Taney (1833–1834) Levi Woodbury (1834–1837)
Secretary of War	John Eaton (1829–1831) Lewis Cass (1831–1836)
Attorney General	John M. Berrien (1829–1831) Roger B. Taney (1831–1833) Benjamin Franklin Butler (1833–1837)
Postmaster General	William T. Barry (1829–1835) Amos Kendall (1835–1837)
Secretary of the Navy	John Branch (1829–1831) Levi Woodbury (1831–1834) Mahlon Dickerson (1834–1837)

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