Samuel S. Barney

Who was Samuel S. Barney?

Samuel Stebbins Barney was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.

Born in Hartford, Wisconsin, Barney attended the public schools and Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois. He taught high school in Hartford for four years. He studied law in West Bend, Wisconsin and was admitted to the bar in 1873 commencing practice in West Bend. Barney served as Superintendent of schools of Washington County from 1876 till 1880, then returned to private practice. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in 1884. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Barney was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress and to the three succeeding Congresses. While in Congress he represented Wisconsin's 5th congressional district. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1902.

President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him associate justice of the United States Court of Claims, Washington, D.C., in 1904. He served until 1919. He died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on December 31, 1919 and was interred in Union Cemetery, West Bend, Wisconsin.