John Strode Barbour

John Strode Barbour (August 10, 1866 – May 6, 1952) was a Virginia lawyer, businessman, and politician.

Early life and education Barbour was born on August 10, 1866, at Beauregard in Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Virginia. The Barbour political family, was one of the First Families of Virginia. His lawyer father James Barbour, had continued the family's political involvement, as well as served as a major in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His mother was Fanny Thomas Beckham, and also bore daughter, Mrs. C.B. Wallace of Nashville, Tennessee.

Barbour's private education included William Hartman Kable's Charles Town Male Academy in Charles Town, West Virginia. In 1884, Barbour began reading law at John Franklin Rixey's law office in Culpeper, Virginia. At the convention on May 29, 1902, Barbour voted to proclaim the new constitution in effect without submitting it to the voters for ratification.

Death One of the last surviving members of the 1902 Virginia Constitutional Convention, Barbour died after a long illness at Doctors Hospital in Washington, D.C., on May 6, 1952.