Elected as an Anti-Mason to the 22nd United States Congress, Barstow was U. S. Representative for the twenty-fifth district of New York from March 4, 1831, to March 3, 1833.
Barstow, California | Barstow | William Barstow Strong | Gamaliel King | Gamaliel Bradford (banker) | Gamaliel Bailey | Charles Barstow Wright |
Almost all prominent Vermonters who had served in the Civil War were members of the Society, including U.S. Senator Redfield Proctor, Interstate Commerce Commission member Wheelock G. Veazey, and Governors Peter T. Washburn, Roswell Farnham, John L. Barstow, Samuel E. Pingree, Ebenezer J. Ormsbee, Urban A. Woodbury, Josiah Grout, and Charles J. Bell.