John Barney (January 18, 1785 – January 26, 1857) was a U.S. Congressman from the fifth district of

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, serving from 1825 to 1829. He was the son of Commodore

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, a hero of the

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and the

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. Born in

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, Barney was appointed a captain and assistant district quartermaster general in the

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on August 15, 1814, and served until June 15, 1815, when he was

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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress, but was elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1829. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress, and engaged in literary pursuits until his death in

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He is interred in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore.

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