Joseph Walker Barr (January 17, 1918-February 23, 1996) was an American businessman and politician. Born in Vincennes, Indiana, he graduated from DePauw University in 1939, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, and earned a master's degree in economics from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1941. He served in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945, during World War II, with subchaser duty in the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. Wikipedia
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A later Secretary, William Simon, said of Barr that he was the first to realize that the tax system was too complicated for normal individuals. Barr resigned at the end of Johnson's term to become president of the American Security Trust Company in Washi www.ustreas.gov/education/history/secretaries/jwbarr.html
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