Member

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1969 Representative 190 Democrat
1970 Representative 190 Democrat
1971 Representative 190 Democrat
1972 Representative 190 Democrat
1973 Representative 190 Democrat
1974 Representative 190 Democrat
1975 Representative 190 Democrat
1976 Representative 190 Democrat
1977 Representative 190 Democrat
1978 Representative 190 Democrat
1979 Representative 190 Democrat
1980 Representative 190 Democrat
1981 Representative 190 Democrat
1982 Representative 190 Democrat
1983 Representative 190 Democrat
1984 Representative 190 Democrat
1985 Representative 190 Democrat
1986 Representative 190 Democrat
Counties Philadelphia

Biography

08/16/1921 - 12/23/2001


BARBER, James D., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, August 16, 1921 in Columbia, Richland County, SC; graduated, Overbrook High School; attended, Allen University; barber; engaged in real estate; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1969 term; reelected to serve for 8 more consecutive terms thereafter; appointed, Special Committee to Investigate Closing of the Blossburg State Hospital (1973); appointed, Select Committee on Three Mile Island (1979); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House for the 1987 and 1989 terms; died, December 23, 2001 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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