Ortha O. Barr, Jr.
Ortha Orrie Barr, Jr. (March 4, 1922 – March 24, 2003) was an American attorney who was the Democratic Party candidate for Ohio’s 4th congressional district for the U. S. House of Representatives in 1956.[1] The Republican incumbent William Moore McCulloch defeated him by nearly 38 percentage points. McCulloch was an eleven-term congressman from 1947 to 1973. Barr was a Prisoner of War in World War II.
Life
Barr's parents were Ortha Orrie Barr Sr. and Bertha Anna Woerner.[2] Ortha Barr Jr. was a World War II veteran and a prisoner of war. After returning from military service in World War II, Ortha O. Barr Jr. enrolled at the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1951.[3] Barr was an alumnus of the University of Michigan Law School (Class of 1954)[4], where his father Ortha O. Barr, Sr. had graduated from with an LLB degree in 1904.[5][6] Ortha Barr Jr. married Marie Virginia Infante in 1945 and they had five children.[7] He died in 2003 and was buried at the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery in Rittman, Medina County.[8]
References
- ^ "The Strangest Names in American Political History : Ortha Orrie Barr Sr. (1879-1958), Ortha Orrie Barr Jr. (1922-2003)". 26 October 2013.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-10-03. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ General Register. UM Libraries. 1950.
- ^ "Michigan Law History | University of Michigan Law School". Archived from the original on 2020-10-03. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
- ^ "Calendar of the University of Michigan for". 1905.
- ^ "Announcement with List of Students". 1903.
- ^ https://obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?n=marie-virginia-barr-infante&pid=152183670
- ^ https://obits.cleveland.com/us/obituaries/cleveland/name/ortha-barr-obituary?id=17779716