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{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = Haley Barbour
|image        = Haley Barbour by Gage Skidmore.jpg
|order        = 63rd [[List of Governors of Mississippi|Governor of Mississippi]]
|lieutenant   = [[Amy Tuck]]<br>Phil Bryant
|term_start   = January 13, 2004
|term_end     = January 10, 2012
|predecessor  = [[Ronnie Musgrove]]
|successor    = [[Phil Bryant]]
|office1      = Chair of the [[Republican National Committee]]
|term_start1  = January 29, 1993
|term_end1    = January 17, 1997
|predecessor1 = [[Richard Bond (RNC)|Richard Bond]]
|successor1   = [[Jim Nicholson (Secretary of Veterans Affairs)|Jim Nicholson]]
|birth_name   = Haley Reeves Barbour
|birth_date   = {{birth date and age |1947|10|22}}
|birth_place  = [[Yazoo City, Mississippi|Yazoo City]], [[Mississippi]], [[United States|U.S.]]
|death_date   =
|death_place  =
|party        = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|spouse       = {{marriage|[[Marsha Barbour|Marsha Dickson]]|1971}}
|education    = [[University of Mississippi|University of Mississippi, Oxford]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Juris Doctor|JD]])}}
|signature    = Haley Barbour signature.svg
}}
'''Haley Reeves Barbour'''<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ybp2xI8NXPUC&q=%22Haley+Reeves+Barbour%22 |title=Current Biography Yearbook 1996 |editor1-last=Graham |editor-first=Judith |editor2-last=Schick |editor2-first=Elizabeth A. |editor3-last=Young |editor3-first=Gray |editor4-last=Claggett |editor4-first=Hilary D. |editor5-last=Helbok |editor5-first=Miriam |page=16 |isbn=978-0824209087 |date=December 1996 |publisher=H.W. Wilson }}</ref> (born October 22, 1947) is an [[Americans|American]] [[politician]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/02/18/us/haley-barbour-fast-facts/index.html|title=Haley Barbour Fast Facts|first=C. N. N.|last=Library|website=CNN|date=18 February 2013 }}</ref> He was the [[governor]] of [[Mississippi]] from 2004 to 2012. He was mentioned as a possible candidate for [[President of the United States]] in the 2012. In April 2011, Barbour said he will not run for president.

==Early years==
Barbour was born in [[Yazoo City, Mississippi]], where he was raised as the youngest of three sons of Grace LeFlore (née Johnson) and Jeptha Fowlkes Barbour, Jr.<ref>{{cite web|author=Lawrence Kestenbaum |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barbour.html |title=Index to Politicians: Barbour |publisher=The Political Graveyard |accessdate=2011-02-05}}</ref> Haley's father, a [[lawyer]], died when Barbour was two years old.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/02/14/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-haley-barbour |title=10 Things You Didn't Know About Haley Barbour |first=Caitlin |last=Huey-Burns |newspaper=U.S News & World Report |date=February 14, 2011 |accessdate=August 23, 2013}}</ref> Barbour's father who was a Circuit Judge had an inmate to assist him when Judge Barbour became ill. Leon Turner, who was given a posthumous pardon by Barbour in the closing days of his administration, had helped to raise him.<ref>{{cite web |last=Freeland |first=Tom |title=Gov. Barbour press conference on pardons issues |url=http://nmisscommentor.com/law/gov-barbour-press-conference-on-pardons-issues/ |accessdate=January 15, 2012 |archive-date=March 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310134834/http://nmisscommentor.com/law/gov-barbour-press-conference-on-pardons-issues/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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==Other websites==
* [http://www.governorbarbour.com/ Haley Barbour's official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115155216/http://www.governorbarbour.com/ |date=2009-01-15 }}
* {{C-SPAN|Haley Barbour}}

{{Governors of Mississippi}}
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[[Category:1947 births]]
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[[Category:Businesspeople from Mississippi]]
[[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]]
[[Category:People from Yazoo City, Mississippi]]
[[Category:Governors of Mississippi]]
[[Category:21st-century American politicians]]


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