Ortha Orrie Barr Jr. (March 4, 1922 – March 24, 2003) was an American attorney who was the

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candidate for

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for the

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in the 1956 congressional elections. The Republican incumbent in 1956,

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(1901–1980) defeated Barr in a landslide victory by nearly 38 percentage points. McCulloch was a twelve-term congressman from 1947 to 1973.

Life

Born in 1922 in Ohio, Barr's parents were

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and Bertha Anna Woerner. Ortha Barr Jr. served in the United States Army during World War II, and became a prisoner of war. He was detained at the Stalag B Camp in

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, Hessen-Nassau in the then Prussia. He attained the rank of sergeant. Before the conscription, he had completed two years of college and was skilled in metal product fabrication. After the war, he studied accounting at the University of Michigan, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1951. He continued his studies at the University of Michigan Law School (Class of 1954), where his father, Ortha O. Barr Sr. had graduated from with an

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degree in 1904. Ortha Barr Jr. married Marie Virginia Infante in 1945 and they had five children. He died in 2003 and was buried at the

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in Rittman, Medina County.

References

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