A. Constantine Barry

Alfred Constantine Barry (July 15, 1815 – March 5, 1888) was an American educator, politician, Universalist minister, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was Wisconsin's 4th superintendent of public instruction (1855–1858) and served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Kenosha County during the 1864 term. During the American Civil War he served as a Union Army chaplain and recruiter. His name was generally abbreviated as

Biography

A. Constantine Barry was born at Walton, New York, and moved with his parents to Victor, New York, when he was a child. He was raised there and educated by private tutors. He was ordained a Universalist minister in 1836 and pastored for ten years at various locations around New York before bringing his ministry to Racine, Wisconsin Territory, in 1846. In Racine, he started a temperance magazine, the Old Oaken Bucket, and became involved in local education matters, serving as the first supervisor of the public schools in Racine from 1849 through 1853. On his return to Wisconsin, he served on the local recruiting board. and served ten months with that regiment before receiving an appointment from President Abraham Lincoln to serve as chaplain of the United States Hospitals.

Electoral history Wisconsin Superintendent (1855)