Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Barney, Samuel S. 
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Source: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson
Author: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897

FIFTH DISTRICT.

Sheboygan, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha counties, and the tenth, 
thirteenth, twentieth and twenty-first wards of the city of Milwaukee, and the 
towns of Granville, Milwaukee and Wauwatosa in Milwaukee county. Population in 
1895 --- 201,095.

SAMUEL S. BARNEY (Rep.), of West Bend, Washington county, was born January 31, 
1846, at Hartford, Wisconsin. He received his education in the public schools 
and at Lombard University at Galesburg, 111. He taught at Hartford from 1869 to 
1872, when he commenced the study of law with the late attorney general, L. F. 
Frisby, and was admitted to practice in 1872. He has ever since practiced law 
at West Bend, and is now senior member of the firm of Barney & Kuechenmeister. 
He edited the Washington County Republican, now the Hartford Press, at West 
Bend, in 1872 and 1873; was superintendent of schools of Washington county for 
four years, beginning January 1, 1876, and was an unsuccessful candidate for 
congress against General Bragg in the old fifth district in 1884. He was 
elected to the house of representatives in 1894, receiving 18,681 votes, 
against Henry Blank,, democrat, who received 13,057, and Fred C. Runge, 
populist, who received 3,794. In 1896 he was elected to the Fifty-fifth 
Congress, receiving 26,613 votes, against 16,492 for George W. Winans, 
democrat, and 557 for Henry Mensing, socialistic labor candidate.

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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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