Ortha O. Barr Jr.

Ortha Orrie Barr Jr. (March 4, 1922 – March 24, 2003) was an American attorney and politician who was the Democratic Party candidate for Ohio’s 4th congressional district for the U. S. House of Representatives in the 1956 congressional elections. The Republican incumbent in 1956, William Moore McCulloch (1901–1980) defeated Barr in a landslide 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 Ortha Orrie Barr Sr. (1879–1958) and Bertha Anna Woerner (1881–1953). Ortha Barr Jr. served in the United States Army during World War II, where he became a prisoner of war. He attained the rank of sergeant. After the war, he attended University of Michigan Law School (Class of 1954), where his father, Ortha O. Barr Sr. had graduated from with an LLB degree in 1904. Ortha Barr Jr. married Marie Virginia Infante (28 November 1925 – 25 June 2011) in 1945 and they had five children. He died in 2003 and was buried at the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery in Rittman, Medina County.