{"id":2414,"date":"2013-03-08T14:54:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T21:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2019-09-14T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T18:51:40","slug":"barr-john-gorman-1823-1858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2414","title":{"rendered":"BARR, JOHN GORMAN, 1823-1858."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lawyer; author.\u00a0 Born&#8211; November 22, 1823, Milton (Caswell County), North Carolina (moved to Alabama in 1835).\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Thomas and Mary Jane Gorman Barr. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1841, M.A., 1842. Read law with Attorney Harvey Ellis in Tuscaloosa; admitted to the bar in 1843. Worked as a tutor in math at the University of Alabama; set up a law practice in 1845.\u00a0 Organized and led a local unit in the Mexican War; rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel but did not see combat.\u00a0 Practiced law in Tuscaloosa; managing editor of the Tuscaloosa <em>Observer,<\/em> a local newspaper. Published humorous stories based on daily life in Alabama in the New York weekly newspaper <em>Spirit of the Times, <\/em>1855-57.\u00a0 Campaigned for a Congressional seat in 1857-58, but withdrew from the race to prevent a party split.\u00a0 Appointed consul to Australia by President James Buchanan, but died on the voyage, May 18, 1858.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beidler, Philip D.\u00a0 <em>The Art of Fiction in the Heart of Dixie:\u00a0 An Anthology of Alabama Writers.\u00a0 <\/em>University of Alabama Press, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Hubbs, G. Ward, &#8220;Introduction,&#8221; to\u00a0 <em>Rowdy Tales from Early Alabama: The Humor of John Gorman Barr. <\/em>University of Alabama Press, 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Rowdy Tales from Early Alabama: The Humor of John Gorman Barr. <\/em>University of Alabama Press, 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of John Gorman Barr is held by the W.S.Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Lawyer; author.\u00a0 Born&#8211; November 22, 1823, Milton (Caswell County), North Carolina (moved to Alabama in 1835).\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Thomas and Mary Jane Gorman Barr. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1841, M.A., 1842. Read law with Attorney Harvey Ellis in Tuscaloosa; admitted to the bar in 1843. Worked as a tutor in math at the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9221,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/9221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}