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Robert R. Barry

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-08-1966 Republican CD-38 69444 Loss
Website: bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000190
 

Candidate Biography:

Robert Raymond Barry
Born: May 15, 1915 in Omaha, Nebraska
Died: June 14, 1988 in Redwood City, CA

1941-1945: Staff, Office of the Under Secretary of the Navy
1940s: Staff, Wendell Willkie
1940s: Staff, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
1950s: Staff, Presidents Eisenhower
1959-1965: Member, United States House of Representatives [New York]
1964: Candidate for CD-38 [CA] (Lost)
Later: United States Delegate to UNESCO
1960s: Staff, President Nixon
1970: Primary Candidate for US Senate (Lost)
1972: Primary Candidate for CD-11[CA] (Lost)

Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present" (U.S. Library of Congress) [http://bioguide.congress.gov/]
Source: "Primary Ballot Studded With Comeback Efforts" by Richard Bergholz, Los Angeles Times (4/28/1968)