Former Attorney General William Barr took the center stage in the second Jan 6 hearing held on Monday with his detailed video testimony that consisted of terms such as “bulls**t”, “bogus” and “complete rubbish” to describe former US President Donald Trump’s 2020 election voter fraud claims.
Barr has been one of the key witnesses for the House committee to demonstrate that those close to Trump made the former president well aware that the 2020 election had no evidence that supported his allegations that the voting machines were rigged.
Who is William Barr?
William Pelham Barr is an American lawyer who served as the attorney general of the United States of America in the administrations of former Presidents George H. W. Bush and Donald Trump.
Early life
Barr was born on May 23, 1950, in New York to Donald Barr, the former headmaster of Manhattan’s Dalton School, and Mary Margaret, a former educator at Columbia University. While his father was a Jewish who converted to Christianity, his mother was of Irish descent.
Barr attended Corpus Christi School and Horace Mann School in New York. In 1971, he graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts. Two years later, he received a Master of Arts in government and Chinese studies from the university.
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Career
Barr began working in the Central Intelligence Agency in 1971. Six years later, he served as a law clerk to Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey. In the 80s, he joined the law firm Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge.
He also led the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) as the deputy attorney general before he was promoted to the post of attorney general in 1991.
Between 1994 and 2008, he worked as a corporate attorney for TE and Verizon Communications.
In 2019, he began his second term as the attorney general in Trump’s administration.
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Familial life
Barr tied the knot with Christine Moynihan Barr in 1973. The couple has three daughters, Mary Barr Daly, Patricia Barr Straughn, and Margaret Barr.
