William Pelham Barr is an American attorney. He was appointed by Donald Trump as the 85th United States Attorney General. Previously, he served in the position from 1991 to 1993. He began his current term on February 14, 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.
William Barr is famous for an attorney. He was appointed by Donald Trump as the 85th United States Attorney General. On May 1, 2019, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd told the House Oversight Committee that Barr instructed Justice Department official John Gore to refuse a subpoena to testify in front of that committee, saying that a Justice Department lawyer must be present at Gore's testimony and that the committee had not allowed that.
William Barr was born on May 23, 1950, in New York City. He holds American nationality and belongs to white ethnicity. His birth sign is Gemini and religion is Roman Catholic. He grew up on the Upper West Side. He attended a Catholic grammar school, Corpus Christi School, and then the non-sectarian Horace Mann School. He entered Columbia University, where he majored in government and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1971. He did two years of graduate study at Columbia, receiving a Master of Arts in government and Chinese studies in 1973. He then attended law school at the George Washington University Law School, graduating with a Juris Doctor summa cum laude in 1977.
William Barr was born to a father named Donald Barr and a mother named Mary Margaret. His father taught English literature at Columbia University before becoming headmaster of the Dalton School in Manhattan and later the Hackley School in Tarrytown, both members of the Ivy Preparatory School League and his mother also taught at Columbia. His father was born Jewish but later converted to Catholicism and his mother is of Irish ancestry. He has three brothers where he is second of four brothers.
William Barr height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.76m) tall and body weight of 80 kg. He has white color hair and his eye is brown. His shoe size is 11 (UK).
William Barr is a married man. He married Christine Moynihan Barr, a masters degree in library science. They have three daughters named, Mary Barr Daly, Patricia Barr Straughn, and Margaret Barr. Their eldest daughter was a senior Justice Department official who oversaw the department's anti-opioid and addiction effort, Patricia was counsel for the House Agriculture Committee and Margaret is a former Washington prosecutor and cancer survivor, was counsel for Republican Senator Mike Braun of Indiana.
William Barr estimated net worth of $10 million US dollars as of 2018 and his salary has not revealed yet but will be updated soon.