1. George Washington Barrow was a slave owner, American politician, a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 8th congressional district; he later fought against the Union as a member of the Confederate Army and was charged with treason.
Washington Barrow attended Davidson Academy and in 1826 became one of the first graduates of the University of Nashville.
Washington Barrow read law and was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 1827.
In 1837, Washington Barrow served a term in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Washington Barrow was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress, but he was not a candidate for renomination to the Thirty-first Congress in 1848.
Washington Barrow served from March 4,1847 to March 3,1849.
Washington Barrow worked as a businessman and founded and served as the first president of the Nashville Gas Light Company.
Washington Barrow was captured by Union forces in Nashville and charged with treason.
Washington Barrow refused to take an oath of allegiance and was imprisoned at Ohio and Mackinac Island, Michigan, which gravely weakened his health, but later was paroled in an exchange of prisoners.
Washington Barrow is interred at the family vault of Dr John Shelby, his father-in-law, at the Mount Olivet Cemetery Nashville City Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.