Andy Barr

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Andy Barr (U.S. politician)

Garland Hale "Andy" Barr IV (born July 24, 1973) is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the United States Representative for Kentucky's 6th congressional district since 2013.

A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Barr completed undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia in 1996. While in college, he worked as an intern for Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and the Republican National Committee. After graduation, he worked as a legislative assistant for then-Missouri Representative Jim Talent before enrolling at the University of Kentucky College of Law. He completed his law degree in 2001 and joined the Lexington firm of Stites & Harbison. After representing the running mate of Republican gubernatorial candidate Ernie Fletcher in a dispute over residency requirements in 2003, he joined Fletcher's transition team after his election and eventually became part of his executive staff. He was not implicated in the hiring scandal that plagued Fletcher's administration, and in fact, claimed that he had warned administration officials of potential violations of the state merit system.

Andy Barr (Irish politician)

Andy Barr (23 September 1913 – 30 March 2003) was an Irish communist and trade unionist.

Life

He was born in Belfast, Barr became a sheet metal worker, and joined the Communist Party of Northern Ireland (CPNI) in 1942. Barr became a shop steward in 1942, and by 1948 was a member of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers's Executive Committee. In 1949, he was sacked for organising a union meeting during working hours. The successful protests to reinstate him led to a stoppage of 10,000 workers. He stood unsuccessfully for the CPNI in Belfast Bloomfield at the Northern Ireland general election, 1953, taking only 11.8% of the votes cast.

In 1954, Barr was elected to the Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Trades Union Congress, and in 1956 to the Executive Committee of the organisation. In 1959, he supported the formation of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU). He became president of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions in 1957, serving until 1978, and President of his own union in 1964, the same year in which he secured recognition of the ICTU by the Government of Northern Ireland. He stood again for the CPNI in Bloomfield at the Northern Ireland general election, 1965, and in the same year became party chairman. The CPNI became part of the Communist Party of Ireland in 1970, and Barr served as chair of the new organisation until 1983.