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 The Chronicle welcomes you online! Please feel free to respond to these editorials or letters to the editor by sending your letters to the editor.

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Doug Barnard Jr.

Doug Barnard Jr.

Web posted January 1, 2000

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In 1976 the Augusta banker was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He soon was at odds with his Democratic Party leadership, and later co-founded a conservative ``Boll Weevil'' caucus that voted for President Reagan's tax cuts and defense buildup. The Banking Committee member's crowning achievement, that took a decade to complete, was instituting one of the most sweeping reforms of the nation's banking system since the Depression. Even though he retired from Congress in 1993 after serving 16 years, some of his early '90s reform bills just became law this year.

Barnard served on the Georgia Transportation Board (1965-75) and area transportation needs remained a priority with him in Congress. He secured millions of dollars for Bush Field improvements and local railroad overpasses.