By the end of his first term, Mr. Barbour's party controlled both houses of Congress for the first time in forty years. On January 20, 1995, two years to the day before the next presidential inauguration, Mr. Barbour, 48, won by unanimous vote re-election for the second term as Chairman.

Prior to his election as Chairman, Mr. Barbour was a practicing attorney and partner in the law firm of Barbour and Rogers, with offices in Mississippi and Washington, D.C. In 1985, he took a hiatus from his law practice to serve Ronald Reagan as director of the White House Office of Political Affairs. Mr. Barbour also served as a senior adviser to the George Bush for President campaign in 1988.

Barbour, a seventh-generation Mississippian, was the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1982; he lost to the 35-year incumbent, Senator John Stennis. Since 1984, he has served as Republican National Committeeman for Mississippi.

A longtime Southern GOP leader, Barbour, after having worked in both of the successful Nixon for President campaigns at the state level, served, from 1973 to 1976, as executive director of the Mississippi Republican Party and the Southern Association of Republican State Chairmen.

A Reagan supporter at the 1976 GOP National Convention in Kansas City, he subsequently directed the President Ford campaign in seven states. Since 1976, he has been active in Republican campaigns at the state and national level.

Mr. Barbour received his law degree from the University of Mississippi in 1973. For thirteen years, he was a partner in the law firm of Henry, Barbour and DeCell of Yazoo City, Mississippi, where he and his family still reside. Haley and his wife, Marsha, have two sons. He is a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church of Yazoo City, where he has also taught Sunday School.

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