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BARRON.
BARRINQER, Daniel Laurens, representa-
tive, was born in Mecklenburg county, N.C., Oct.
1, 1781 ; eldest son of John Paul Barringer, a
native of Wiirtemberg, Germany, who came to
America in 1742, and removed from Philadelphia
to North Carolina in 1743, becoming the progeni-
tor of the Barringers of that state ; and brother of
Gen. Paul Barringer of the war of 1812. He was
well educated and became a lawyer in Raleigh,
N.C. He was a representative in the North
Carolina legislature, 1813-14, and 1819-22 ; a
representative from the Raleigh district in the
19th-23d congresses, 1825-"35, and a presidential
elector, 1844. He died in Tennessee, Oct. 16. 1852,
BARRINQER, Daniel floreau, diplouiatist,
was born in Cabarras county, N.C, in 1806 ; son of
Gen. Paul and Elizabeth (Brandon) Barringer ;
and a brother of Gen. Rufus, of the Rev. William,
and of Judge Victor C. Barringer. He was gradu-
ated from the University of North Carolina in
1826 and was admitted to the bar in 1829, practis-
ing in Concord, N.C. He was elected a represent:
ative in the state legislature in 1829 and served
several terms. He was a member of the state
constitutional convention of 1835 ; a AVhig repre-
sentative from the Concord district in the 28th,
29th and 30th congresses, 1843-"49, and was
appointed minister to Spain by President Taylor,
serving, 1849-53. He was re-elected to the state
legislature ; a delegate to the peace congress of
1861 ; a brigadier-general in the Confederate
service and a delegate to the Union convention
in 1866. He died at White Sulphur Springs, Va.,
Sept. 1. 1873.
BARRINGER, Rufus, soldier, was born near Concord. N.C, Dec. 15, 1821 ; son of Paul and Eliz- abeth (Brandon) Barringer. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1842. He read law with his brother at Concord, N. C, finished his legal training under Chief Justice Pear- son at Mocksville, N. C, and opened a law office at Con- cord. He was Whig in politics, and in 1848 was elected to the lower house of the state legisla- ture, w here he urged the construc- tion of a railroad from Charlotte to Danville, and otherwise advocated a progressive system of internal improvements, including the North Carolina railroad. The following session he
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represented his district in the state senate. His
growing practice claimed his entire attention
until 1860 when, as a Whig elector, he made
an energetic canvas in behalf of Bell and
Everett. He opposed secession, but when war
became inevitable, he prepared to assist in the
defence of his native state, raised a company
of cavalry, afterwards Company F, 1st North
Carolina cavalry, was commissioned captain May
16, 1861 ; major, Aug. 26, 1863, and three months
later he was promoted lieutenant-colonel. In
June, 1864, he was commissioned brigadier-gen-
eral, and succeeded to the command of the North
Carohna cavalry brigade consisting of the 1st,
2d, 3d, and 5th regiments. General Barringer
was in seventy-six actions, received three wounds,
and had two horses killed under him. He was
taken prisoner at Namozine church, Va., April 3,
1865, and held until August, 1865. On returning
to North Carolina, he engaged in the practice of
law until 1884, and advocated qualified negro suf-
frage as a southern policy co-operating with the
Republican party until 1888, when he supported
the nomination of Grover Cleveland on the
ground of tariff reform. He was a member of the
state constitutional convention in 1875 ; Repul)li-
can candidate for lieutenant-governor of North
Carolina in 1880, and engaged in agricultural pur-
suits in 1884. He is the author of " A History of
the 1st North Carolina," and of other war articles.
He died Feb. 3, 1895.
BARRINGER, Victor Clay, jurist, was born near Concord, N.C, March 29, 1827 ; son of Gen. Paul Barringer. He was gradvxated at the Uni- versity of North Carolina in 1848 ; served as pri- vate secretary to his brother Daniel Moreau Bar- ringer at Madrid, 1849-"53, and on his return practised lavv in North Carolina. He was a mem- ber of the commission to adjust the code of civil procedure to the former laws of the state, in 1868, and of that to reduce the U.S. statutes at large into the compact form of the revised statues in 1870. He was appointed an American member of the International court of appeals at Alexandria, Egypt, by President Grant, serving, 1874-"94. He received the highest honor conferred by the Khedive, the third class of the order of Os- manieh, in 1894. He died at Washington, D.C., May 27. 1896.
BARRON, James, naval officer, was born in Virginia in 1769. He began his career in the navj' of liis native state during the war of the revolution, entered the navy of the United States in 1798 as a lieutenant, and was pro- moted to a captaincy in the year following, for Important services on board the United States, under Commodore Barry, to the command of which frigate he afterwards succeeded. After an active and useful service of nine years, during
