Samuel Fleming Barr (15 June 1829-29 May 1919) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-PA 14) from 4 March 1881 to 3 March 1885, succeeding John Weinland Killinger and preceding Franklin Bound.
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Samuel Fleming Barr was born in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland in 1829, and he emigrated to the United States in 1831 and settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He became a railroad freight agent before editing the Harrisburg Telegraph from 1873 to 1878 and in the US House of Representatives from 1881 to 1885. He later retired to Seal Harbor, Maine and San Diego, California, where he died in 1919.