William Barr Bio, Age, Wife, Daughter, Net Worth, Salary, Education, Testimony and Attorney General

William Barr Biography and Wiki

William Barr is an American two-time United States Attorney General who was born in New York City, New York, the United States as William Pelham Barr. Barr was appointed by President Donald Trump as the 85th Attorney General and has served in that role since February 14, 2019.

Previously, Barr served in the position from 1991 to 1993, in the administration of George H. W. Bush. Before becoming Attorney General the first time, he held numerous other posts within the Department of Justice, including serving as Deputy Attorney General from 1990 to 1991. He is a longtime proponent of the unitary executive theory of unfettered presidential authority. He is a member of the Republican Party.

10 Quick Facts About William Barr

1. Name: William Barr
2. Age: 72 years old as of 2022
3. Birthday: 23 May 1950
4. Zodiac Sign: Gemini
5. Height: 5 feet 9 Inches
6. Nationality: American
7. Occupation: Attorney General
8. Marital Status: Married
9. Salary: $1.5 million
10. Net worth: $40 million

William Barr Age

Barr is 72 years old as of 2022, he was born on 23 May 1950 in New York City, New York, United States. Barr celebrates his birthday on May 23 every year and his birth sign Gemini.

William Barr Height and Weight

Barr stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches and weighs 80 Kg. He also appears to be quite tall in stature in his photos. He has black eyes and salt and pepper hair color.

William Barr Education, Law School

Barr attended the Corpus Christi School and Horace Mann School. Barr received his B.A. degree in government in 1971 and his M.A. degree in government and Chinese studies in 1973, both from Columbia University. He received his Juris Doctor degree with the highest honors in the year 1977 from the George Washington University Law School.

William Barr Family, Parents and Siblings

Barr was born and raised by his parents Donald Barr (father) and Mary Margaret (Mother) a Columbia University faculty member as the second of four sons.

His father taught English literature at Columbia University prior to becoming headmaster of the Dalton School in Manhattan and later the Hackley School in Tarrytown, both members of the Ivy Preparatory School League. Donald was born Jewish but later converted to Catholicism while William’s mother is of Irish ancestry.

William Barr Wife and Children

Barr is married to Christine Moynihan Barr. The couple married in 1973. Together the couple has three daughters.  His wife holds a master’s degree in library science.

William Barr Wife Christine Moynihan

Christine Moynihan Barr is a graduate of English from the College of Mount Saint Vincent and later worked on the college board. Christine gained a Masters’s in library science from Catholic University in the year 1975. She went on to become a librarian at the IMF and Georgetown University prior to working at Stone Ridge School in Bethesda, Maryland.

William Barr Children, Daughters

William and his wife Christine share three daughters: Mary, Patricia, and Meg. Their eldest daughter Mary before worked for the Department of Justice where she was a former federal prosecutor. While at the DOJ Mary prosecuted gang members as well as drug traffickers and in the year 2018, she became the Director of Opioid Enforcement and Prevention Efforts in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General.

In the year 2019, she left and started working in the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit. Their second eldest child Patricia was a member of the counsel for the House Agriculture Committee.

Meg, their youngest child, was a Washington prosecutor as well as a counsel for the Republican Senator Mike Braun. Meg’s husband Tyler McGaughey left the U.S. Attorney’s office in Virginia to join the White House Counsel’s office in the year 2019.

William Barr Salary

Barr has an estimated salary of $1.5 million dollars as of 2022. He became a multimillionaire from working in GTE and Verizon. From 1997 to 2000, Barr worked on the Board of Visitors of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg.

William Barr Net Worth

Attorney General William Barr has an estimated net worth of $40 million dollars as of 2022. This includes his Assets, Money, and Income. His primary source of income is his career as an Attorney General. Through his various sources of income, Barr has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

William Barr Measurements and Facts

Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about William Barr.

William Barr Wiki

• Full Names: William Pelham Barr
• Popular As: United States Attorney General
• Gender: Male
• Occupation / Profession: Attorney General
• Nationality: American
• Race / Ethnicity: White
• Religion: Christianity
• Sexual Orientation: Straight

William Barr Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 72 years old as of 2022
• Zodiac Sign: Gemini
• Date of Birth: 23 May 1950
• Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States.
• Birthday: May 23

William Barr Body Measurements

• Body Measurements: To be updated
• Height / How Tall?: 5 feet 9 inches
• Weight: 80 Kg
• Eye Color: Black
• Hair Color: Salt and pepper
• Shoe Size: To be updated

William Barr Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad): Donald Barr
• Mother: Mary Margaret (Ahern)
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Mary Daly
• Marital Status: Married
• Husband/Spouse: Married to Christine Moynihan Barr
• Dating / Boyfriend: Not Applicable
• Children:  Sons (Not Available) Daughter(s) (Mary, Patricia, and Meg)

William Barr Networth and Salary

• Net Worth: $40 million dollars
• Salary: $1.5 million dollars
• Source of Income: Attorney General

William Barr House and Cars

• Place of living: US
• Cars: Car Brand to be Updated

William Barr Career

From 1973 to 1977, William Barr was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency. He was a law clerk to Judge Malcolm Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1977 through 1978.

From May 3, 1982, to September 5, 1983, he served on the domestic policy staff at the Reagan White House with his official title being Deputy Assistant Director for Legal Policy. Barr was also in private practice for nine years with the Washington law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge.

U.S. Department of Justice

In 1989, at the beginning of his administration, President George H. W. Bush appointed William to the U.S. Department of Justice as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), an office which functions as the legal advisor for the President and executive agencies.

Barr was known as a strong defender of presidential power and wrote advisory opinions justifying the U.S. invasion of Panama. He was also known for the arrest of Manuel Noriega, and a controversial opinion that the FBI could enter onto foreign soil without the consent of the host government to apprehend fugitives wanted by the United States government for terrorism or drug-trafficking.

He declined a congressional request for the full opinion, but instead provided a document that “summarizes the principal conclusions.” Congress subpoenaed the opinion, and its public release after his departure from the Justice Department showed he had omitted significant findings in the opinion from his summary document.

U.S. Deputy Attorney General (1990–1991)

In May 1990, he was appointed Deputy Attorney General, the official responsible for the day-to-day management of the Department. According to media reports, he was generally praised for his professional management of the Department. During August 1991, when then-Attorney General Richard Thornburgh resigned to campaign for the Senate, William Barr was named Acting Attorney General.

Three days after he accepted that position, 121 Cuban inmates, awaiting deportation to Cuba, seized 9 hostages at the Talladega federal prison. Barr directed the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team to assault the prison, which resulted in rescuing all hostages without loss of life.

instances where Donald Trump tried to either impede or end the Special Counsel investigation, analyzing each in terms of the three factors necessary for a criminal charge of obstruction.

During a press conference, William Barr said Mueller’s report contained “substantial evidence” that Trump was “frustrated and angered” because of his belief that the “investigation was undermining his presidency, propelled by his political opponents, and fueled by illegal leaks”; however, the report gave no indication that Trump’s frustrations with the investigation would mitigate obstructing behavior.

Barr also said it would not be criminal obstruction of justice for a president to instruct a staffer to lie to investigators about the president’s actions and suggested a president could legally terminate an investigation into himself if he was being “falsely accused”.

William Barr Attorney General

Barr is an attorney serving as the 85th United States Attorney General since the year 2019, before holding the office from 1991 to 1993. In the 1980s, Barr served for the law firm Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, sandwiching a year’s work in the White House of the Ronald Reagan administration dealing with legal policies. Before becoming Attorney General in the year 1991, Barr held numerous other posts within the Department of Justice, including leading the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) as well as serving as Deputy Attorney General.

As deputy attorney general, Barr authorized an FBI operation in the year 1991 which freed hostages at the Talladega federal prison. An influential advocate for tougher criminal justice policies, Barr as attorney general in the year 1992 authored the report The Case for More Incarceration, where he argued for an increase in the United States incarceration rate. Under Barr’s advice, President George H. W. Bush in the year 1992 pardoned six officials involved in the Iran–Contra affair.

Barr became attorney general for the second time in the year 2019. During his ongoing term, he has received criticism from some for his handling of several challenges, including his mischaracterized summary as well as a selective redaction of the Mueller report, interventions in the guilty convictions and sentences of former advisors to President Trump, Roger Stone and Michael Flynn and allegations of political interference in the removal of Geoffrey Berman from his Southern District of New York attorney position in a matter pertaining to the indictment of Turkish bank Halkbank, a bank with close personal ties to Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

William Barr Testimony

On January 14, 2019, a day prior to Barr’s confirmation hearing for Attorney General, Barr sent written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the eventual final Mueller report, saying “it is very important that the public and Congress be informed of the results of the special counsel’s work. For that reason, my goal will be to provide as much transparency as I can consistent with the law.”

During May 1, 2019, testimony prior to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Barr stated he accepted Mueller’s interpretation of the law that was applied in the Report. However, in a May 30 CBS News interview, Barr said he had applied his own interpretation of the law and took the position that obstruction laws cannot apply to presidents who abuse their official powers to impede an investigation for a corrupt reason. Barr elaborated: “As a matter of law … we didn’t agree with the legal analysis – a lot of the legal analysis in the report. It did not reflect the views of the department”.

During a June 2020 House Judiciary Committee testimony, Donald Ayer, a former deputy attorney general for whom Barr served during the George H. W. Bush presidency, asserted that Barr “poses the greatest threat, in my lifetime, to our rule of law and to public trust in it”. Three months later, Ayer claimed Barr “is on a mission to install the president as an autocrat.”

William Barr Religion

Barr belongs to Christianity religion. His’s father was Jewish and raised in Judaism but later converted to Christianity and joined the Catholic Church. His mother is of Irish ancestry. Barr was raised as a Catholic.

William Barr Speech

Barr has made commentary about social as well as religious issues in speeches and television appearances. In an October 2019 address at the University of Notre Dame, Barr asserted that “militant secularists” had been attacking Judeo-Christian values for five decades, stating, “This is not decay. This is organized destruction.

William Barr Fox News

In early June 2020, according to reporting by The Washington Post and Fox News, Barr personally ordered that the streets around Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. should be cleared so that Trump, Barr as well as other administration officials could stage a photo op in front of St. John’s Church. At the time, the streets were occupied by peaceful protesters as part of the George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C. Barr’s order resulted in federal law enforcement officers rushing protesters, and employing smoke canisters, pepper balls, riot shields, and batons against the protesters

In an August 2020 appearance on Fox News, Barr asserted that Black Lives Matter is “a revolutionary group that is interested in some form of socialism, communism.

In a subsequent interview on Fox News, Barr asserted, “the president bore the burden of probably one of the greatest conspiracy theories — baseless conspiracy theories — in American political history,” despite the recent inspector general report debunking several conspiracy theories Trump and his allies had promoted.

William Barr Robert Mueller

Barr and Robert Mueller have known each other since the 1980s and are said to be good friends. Mueller attended the weddings of two of Barr’s daughters, and their wives attend Bible study together.

William Barr HIV

As Deputy Attorney General, Barr – together with others at the Department of Justice – successfully led the effort for the withdrawal of a proposed Department of Health and Human Services rule that would have allowed people with HIV/AIDS into the United States.

Barr also advocated the use of Guantanamo Bay to prevent Haitian refugees and HIV infected individuals from claiming asylum in the United States. According to Vox in December 2018, he supported an aggressive “law and order” agenda on immigration as Attorney General in the Bush Administration.

William Barr Death Penalty

William Barr supports the death penalty, arguing that it reduces crime. Barr advocated a Bush-backed bill that would have expanded the types of crime that could be punished by execution.

In a 1991 op-ed in The New York Times, Barr argued that death row inmates’ ability to challenge their sentences should be limited to avoid cases dragging on for years: “This lack of finality devastates the criminal justice system. It diminishes the deterrent effect of state criminal laws, saps state prosecutorial resources, and continually reopens the wounds of victims and survivors.”

William Barr Drugs

Barr personally prefers a federal ban on marijuana. However, due to thinking that a general consensus on a federal ban is not possible, he prefers the STATES Act on marijuana legalization. “I think it’s a mistake to back off on marijuana… However, if we want a federal approach, if we want states to have their own laws, then let’s get there and let’s get there the right way.” He also stated that DOJ policy should align with congressional legislation.

Currently, the STATES Act is being analyzed by the Department of Justice for “comment”: “Once we get those comments, we’ll be able to work with you on any concerns about the STATES law, but I would much rather that approach – the approach taken by the STATES Act – than where we currently are.”

William Barr 2016 election

William Barr donated $55,000 to a political action committee that backed Jeb Bush during the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries and $2,700 to Donald Trump during the general election campaign.

William Barr Executive Powers

Barr is a proponent of the unitary executive theory, which holds that the President has broad executive powers. Before joining the Trump administration, Barr argued that the president has “complete authority to start or stop a law enforcement proceeding.”

William Barr Hearing

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for William Barr, President Trump’s nominee to succeed Jeff Sessions, who left the post in November. This was the first public proceeding for the committee with Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) serving as the committee’s chair.

Following opening statements from committee leadership and Mr. Barr, the nominee faced questions from senators, most of them related to the Justice Department’s handling of the special counsel investigation into Russia and its involvement in the 2016 presidential election. After about two hours, the committee recessed for a lunch break.

William Barr News

Trump’s loyalist attorney general—now on the outs after undercutting his unfounded election fraud claims—is reportedly considering stepping down prior to his boss leaves the White House.

Attorney General William Barr may leave his post at the Justice Department prior to his boss, President Donald Trump, has the chance to axe him. Barr, whose fate came into question last week after he publicly undercut Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of election-altering fraud, is considering stepping down from his job before the Trump administration ends next month and could announce his early departure prior to year’s end, the New York Times reports.

Trump was supposedly furious last week after Barr, one of his most loyal allies, stated that the Justice Department had “not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” an acknowledgement contradicting the baseless charges put forth by Trump—as well as the right-wing media—in an attempt to rewrite his loss.

The perceived betrayal, coupled with the president’s reported anger at Barr’s handling of a probe into the 2016 investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, suggested there was trouble in paradise. Trump bolstered such speculation at a White House event last week following Barr’s statement, with the president claiming Barr had not looked hard enough for evidence of voter fraud and refusing to rule out a possible termination. According to NBC News, asked whether he still had confidence in his attorney general, Trump said: “Ask me that in a number of weeks from now.”

The attorney general breaking with Trump’s attempt to overturn the election outcome, as well as Trump lashing out against Barr thereafter, was something of a departure for the dynamic duo, who have maintained an amicable relationship during their time together. Yet according to the Times, Barr “had been weighing his departure since before last week” and “Trump had not affected the attorney general’s thinking.” Another source told the Times that Barr “had concluded that he had completed the work that he set out to accomplish at the Justice Department.”

Barr’s early exit would “deprive the president of a cabinet officer who has wielded the power of the Justice Department more deeply in service of a president’s political agenda than any attorney general in a half-century,” the Times reports, though the decision may be welcome news to Trump allies who, amid Barr’s recent refusal to embrace Trump’s post-election delusion, have called for his departure.

Early on in the election aftermath, however, the attorney general was willing to advance Trump’s evidence-free allegations of voter fraud, and was outspoken throughout Trump’s campaign in warning, also without evidence, that mail-in ballots would lead to widespread election fraud.

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