Frank A. Barrett: Difference between revisions

{{short description|AmericanUnited politicianStates Senator from Wyoming}}

{{Infobox Governorofficeholder

|birth_place = [[Omaha, Nebraska]], U.S.

|death_place = [[Cheyenne, Wyoming]], U.S.

|children = [[James EmmettE. Barrett]] and Francis Anthony Barrett

|rank = sergeantSergeant

{{citation |url= https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML4C-ZG3 |title= United States Census, 1910 |website= [[FamilySearch]] |accessdateaccess-date=April 24, 2018 }}</ref> He studied [[Bachelor of Laws|law]] and [[Bachelor of Sciences|science]] at [[Creighton University]],<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_wyoming/col2-content/main-content-list/title_barrett_frank.htmllhtml|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120117234309/http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_wyoming/col2-content/main-content-list/title_barrett_frank.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= January 17, 2012|title= Wyoming Governor Frank A. Barrett|publisher= National Governors Association|accessdateaccess-date= November 15, 2012}}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and worked as a postal employee at the same time. During [[World War I]], Barrett joined the Balloon Corps of the [[United States Army]] for a two-year enlistment. He married Alice Catherine Donoghue on May 21, 1919, and they moved to [[Lusk, Wyoming|Lusk]], [[Wyoming]].

After arriving in Lusk, Barrett put his law degree to good use, acting as county attorney for [[Niobrara County, Wyoming|Niobrara]] from 1922 until 1934. He served in the [[Wyoming Senate]] from 1933 until 1935,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barreiro-barrett.html|title=Barrett, Frank Aloysius (1892-1962)|publisher= The Political Graveyard|accessdateaccess-date= November 15, 2012}}</ref> then served on the [[Board of Trustees]] of the [[University of Wyoming]]. He first ran for Federal office in 1936, but lost out to [[Paul Greever]]. He stood for Congress again in 1942, and won, serving there until 1950.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/frank_barrett/401177|title=Sen. Frank Barrett |publisher= Govtrack.us |accessdateaccess-date= November 15, 2012}}</ref> In 1951, Barrett was sworn in as Governor.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_wyoming/col2-content/main-content-list/title_barrett_frank.htmllhtml|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120117234309/http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_wyoming/col2-content/main-content-list/title_barrett_frank.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= January 17, 2012|title= Wyoming Governor Frank A. Barrett|publisher= National Governors Association|accessdateaccess-date= November 15, 2012}}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He resigned in 1953 after he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1952, when he unseated three-term incumbent [[Joseph C. O'Mahoney]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/frank_barrett/401177|title=Sen. Frank Barrett |publisher= Govtrack.us |accessdateaccess-date= November 15, 2012}}</ref> Barrett voted in favor of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1957]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/s75|title=HR. 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957.|work=GovTrack.us}}</ref> He was defeated after only one term by one of O'Mahoney's former aides, [[Gale McGee]].

On February 17, 1956, his wife Alice died of cancer. They had had four children together, one of whom had died in infancy. On April 4, 1959, he remarried, to Augusta K. Hogan. Barrett completed his term in the Senate in 1958, and narrowly lost his re-election bid. In 1959 he was appointed Chief Counsel of the [[United States Department of Agriculture|Department of Agriculture]] and sat on the board of directors of the [[Commodity Credit Corporation]]. His son, [[James EmmettE. Barrett]], was a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit and former judge of the [[United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review]] in Washington, D.C.

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