Hiram Barber Jr. (24 March 1835-5 August 1924) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-IL 3) from 4 March 1879 to 3 March 1881, succeeding Lorenzo Brentano and preceding Charles B. Farwell.
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Hiram Barber Jr. was born in Queensbury, New York, the son of Hiram Barber. He was raised in Horicon, Wisconsin before practicing law in Juneau and serving as Jefferson County prosecuting attorney from 1861 to 1862, assistant attorney general of Wisconsin from 1865 to 1866, as a lawyer in Chicago, in the US House of Representatives from 1879 to 1881, as receiver of the land office at Mitchell, South Dakota from 1881 to 1888, and as master in chancery of the Cook County Superior Court from 1891 to 1914, and he retired to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin and died there in 1924.