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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56889391|title=Eugene Campbell Barker|publisher=findagrave.com|date=August 10, 2010|accessdate=December 6, 2015}}</ref> and David Edward Barker (1922-1973).<ref name=deb/>
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56889391|title=Eugene Campbell Barker|publisher=findagrave.com|date=August 10, 2010|accessdate=December 6, 2015}}</ref> and David Edward Barker (1922-1973).<ref name=deb/>
The Barkers resided in a fieldstone American colonial-style house at 2600 San Gabriel Street in Austin. The structure was a model of architectural beauty and was furnished with carefully selected antiques.<ref name=utex/> Barker was a [[golf]]er and a [[Fishing|fisherman]]. He found time to fish throughout the Austin area as well as at the resort community of Port Aransas near [[Corpus Christi]]. He maintained a summer home for fishing and as a respite from the summer Texas heat in [[Boulder]], [[Colorado]].Barker was known for his generosity. It was said that few who ever went to him in personal distress failed to receive assistance. He lent money to any needy student and never required a promissory note. All the money, he once said, was paid back, sometimes twenty years later. A struggling graduate student outside of the history department once lost his child when an [[Airplane|aviator]] flew into their cottage in west Austin. Barker called in the student and offered financial help.<ref name=utex/>
The Barkers resided in a fieldstone American colonial-style house at 2600 San Gabriel Street in Austin. The structure was a model of architectural beauty and was furnished with carefully selected antiques.<ref name=utex/> Barker was a [[golf]]er and a [[Fishing|fisherman]]. He found time to fish throughout the Austin area as well as at the resort community of Port Aransas near [[Corpus Christi]]. He maintained a summer home for fishing and as a respite from the summer Texas heat in [[Boulder (city)|Boulder]], [[Colorado]]. Barker was known for his generosity. It was said that few who ever went to him in personal distress failed to receive assistance. He lent money to any needy student and never required a promissory note. All the money, he once said, was paid back, sometimes twenty years later. A struggling graduate student outside of the history department once lost his child when an [[Airplane|aviator]] flew into their cottage in west Austin. Barker called in the student and offered financial help.<ref name=utex/>
Barker was an opposition leader to [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Governor James Edward “Pa” Ferguson (1871-1944), who was [[impeachment|impeached]] by the Texas House of Representatives in 1917, convicted by the state Senate of ten counts of wrongdoing, and forced from office. A [[bank]]er from Temple in Bell County, Ferguson’s troubles began when he punitively used the [[line-item veto]] against the UT appropriations bill and attempted to dismiss unfavored faculty members. Barker also opposed Franklin Roosevelt, a highly popular figure in Texas. He supported the conservative regents, including [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Orville Bullington]], when they discharged President Homer P. Rainey, who thereafter was an unsuccessful candidate for governor in the 1946 Democratic [[primary]], having lost to Beauford Jester.
Barker was an opposition leader to [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Governor James Edward “Pa” Ferguson (1871-1944), who was [[impeachment|impeached]] by the Texas House of Representatives in 1917, convicted by the state Senate of ten counts of wrongdoing, and forced from office. A [[bank]]er from Temple in Bell County, Ferguson’s troubles began when he punitively used the [[line-item veto]] against the UT appropriations bill and attempted to dismiss unfavored faculty members. Barker also opposed Franklin Roosevelt, a highly popular figure in Texas. He supported the conservative regents, including [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Orville Bullington]], when they discharged President Homer P. Rainey, who thereafter was an unsuccessful candidate for governor in the 1946 Democratic [[primary]], having lost to Beauford Jester.