John Strode Barbour Jr. (December 29, 1820 – May 14, 1892) was a slave owner,[1] U.S. Representative and a Senator from Virginia, and fought against the United States in the Confederate Army.

Five years later he ran for and won election as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, serving (part-time, along with his private legal practice) from 1847 to 1851.

He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1886, months [quantify] after the death of his wife (and the year after his brother James was elected to Virginia's House of Delegates).

In the late 1880s, Barbour joined with other Conservative Democrats and opposed the Readjuster Party, a coalition of blacks and Republicans led by Harrison H. Riddleberger and William Mahone.

[3][4] His brother James' son, John S. Barbour, briefly became a newspaper editor, and later lawyer and mayor of Culpeper, although he moved to Fairfax County, Virginia.