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'Daniel Laurens Barringer' (
1 October 1788 -
16 October 1852) was a
United States Representative from
North Carolina between
1825 and
1834.
Born in
Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Barringer studied law and practiced in the state capital of
Raleigh. He was elected to the
North Carolina House of Commons in 1813 and 1814, then again in 1819 - 1822.
In
1826, he was chosen in a special election to fill the U.S. House seat left vacant by the resignation of
Willie P. Mangum. He was elected in regular Congressional elections to four succeeding congresses, serving in the national legislature from
4 December 1826 to
3 March,
1835. He ran unsuccessfully for a fourth term in 1834, after which he settled in
Shelbyville, Tennessee. After leaving Congress, Barringer became a member of the Tennessee State House, where he was Speaker from 1843 to 1845; he was a
presidential elector for
Whig ticket of
Henry Clay and
Theodore Frelinghuysen. Barringer died in
1852 in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
Barringer was the uncle of
Daniel Moreau Barringer, also later a Congressman from North Carolina.
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