Compton, Barnes
was born Nov. 16, 1830, in Port Tobacco, Md. He was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1859 without opposition; in 1866 was elected state senator for four years; and was elected president of the senate. At the end of two years he was re-elected for a full term and was again elected president of the senate. In 1874 he was elected treasurer of the state, and served by re-election more than eleven years.
In 1877 he became a member of the board of managers of the state hospital for the insane; and in 1879 was made treasurer of the board. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Maryland to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty-second congresses.