Disability didn't keep Barrow from politics; Active in GOP, he also raised funds for multiple sclerosis research

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: December 11, 2004| Author: GINA BARTON | Copyright information

Disability didn't keep Barrow from politics

Active in GOP, he also raised funds for multiple sclerosis research

Politics -- Republican Party politics specifically -- were a part of Robert Ruffin Barrow's life since childhood.

Barrow first met a man who would be president as a 7-year-old boy, when he accompanied his father to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in 1952. There, his father, personal physician to Robert Taft, delivered a letter from Taft to Dwight Ei...

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