Doug Barnard, Jr.

Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. (March 20, 1922 – January 11, 2018) was a United States congressman from the U.S. state of Georgia.

Biography Barnard attended the Richmond County public schools and graduated from the Academy of Richmond County (Augusta, Georgia) in 1939. He attended Augusta College from 1939 to 1940, then graduated in 1943 with a Bachelor of Arts from Mercer University in Macon, where he became a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He served in the United States Army during World War II from 1943 to 1945 and became a technician two. He served in the 57th Finance Disbursing Unit and was stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana as well as in the European theatre of World War II in England, France and Belgium. He explained that the monument was to guide future generations and that it should make Americans try to ecologically preserve the environment. He had two daughters, one son, and 7 grandchildren.

Legacy Georgia State Route 56 Spur, in Augusta, was named in his honor as the Doug Barnard Parkway.

Electoral history United States House of Representatives