The Biographical Dictionary of America/Barringer, Daniel Laurens

​BARRINGER, Daniel Laurens, representative, was born in Mecklenburg county, N.C., Oct. 1, 1781; eldest son of John Paul Barringer, a native of Würtemberg, Germany, who came to America in 1742, and removed from Philadelphia to North Carolina in 1743, becoming the progenitor of the Barringers of that state; and brother of Gen. Paul Barringer of the war of 1812. He was well educated and became a lawyer in Raleigh, N.C. He was a representative in the North Carolina legislature, 1813–’14, and 1819–’23; a representative from the Raleigh district in the 19th–31st congresses, 1825–53, and a presidential elector, 1844. He died in Tennessee, Oct. 16, 1852.

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