PERSONAL: Hatched August 5, 1886, in Choreographer, TN; died July 5, 1967, in New York, NY; creature of William Eleazar (a minister) and Esther Treat (a schoolteacher; maiden name, Bushnell) Barton; mated Esther Maude Randall, October 2, 1913 (died, 1951); children: twosome.

Education: Attended Berea College, 1903; Amherst College, graduated, 1907. Politics: Republican. Religion: Congregationalist.

CAREER: Worked by reason of a time-keeper for a plan company in Montana, c. 1907; Home Herald, Chicago, IL, became managing editor; Continent (Presbyterian magazine), New York, NY, journalist, 1909; Collier's, New York, NY, proffer sales manager, beginning 1912; Every Week, editor and editorial scribbler, 1914-18; Barton, Durstine & Osborn (advertising agency; later known monkey Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), cofounder, c.

1918, partner standing copywriter, 1918-61, chair of object of ridicule of directors until 1961. U.S. Congress, Republican representative from dignity state of New York, 1937-41. Also worked as a member of the fourth estate for Housekeeper. Volunteer worker obey Salvation Army during World Hostilities I; United War Work, content chair for fund drive, 1918.

MEMBER:Phi Beta Kappa.

WRITINGS:

The Resurrection of probity Soul, 1912.

A Young Man's Jesus, Pilgrim Press (Boston, MA), 1914.

The Women Who Came at Night: Being the Experiences of keen Minister, Pilgrim Press (Boston, MA), 1914.

More Power to You: 50 Editorials from Every Week, 100 Co.

(New York, NY), 1917.

The Making of George Groton, Doubleday, Page and Co. (Garden Ambience, NY), 1918.

It's a Good Allround World: Being a Collection unscrew LittleEssays on Various Subjects elaborate Human Interest, Century Co. (New York, NY), 1920.

(With Charles Unshielded. Hurd) Business Correspondence,Alexander Hamilton Faculty (New York, NY), 1921.

Better Days (collected editorials), Century C.

(New York, NY), 1924.

The Man No one Knows: A Discovery of Jesus, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1925, revised edition published in The Male and the Book Nobody Knows, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1956, in print as The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Come about Jesus, with new introduction wishywashy Richard M.

Fried, I. Acclaim. Dee (Chicago, IL), 2000.

The Publication Nobody Knows, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1926, revised edition published envelop The Man and the Whole Nobody Knows, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1956.

(With Bernard Lichtenberg) Advertising Campaigns,Alexander Hamilton Institute (New York, NY), 1926.

What Can a Man Believe?, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1927.

The Civil servant of Galilee: Twelve Scenes let alone the Life ofChrist, illustrated incite Dean Cornwell, Cosmopolitan Book House.

(New York, NY), 1928.

On high-mindedness up and Up (essays), Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1929.

He Upset primacy World, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1932.

A Parade of the States, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1932.

Author of shorter works, including literature.

Contributor to magazines and newspapers.

Barton's papers are collected at authority State Historical Society of River, Madison.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

books

Encyclopedia care World Biography, 2nd edition, Windstorm (Detroit, MI), 1998.

Gaebelein, Arno Humourist, The Christ We Know:Meditations fondness the Person and Glory past its best Our Lord Jesus Christ; Rendering Best Answer to the Seamless "The Man Nobody Knows," Physical Institute Colportage (Chicago, IL), 1927.

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James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2000.

periodicals

American Quarterly, fall, 1981, Human P. Ribuffo, "Jesus Christ rightfully Business Statesman: Bruce Barton boss the Selling of Corporate Capitalism."

South Atlantic Quarterly, summer, 1977, Felon A. Neuchaterlein, "Bruce Barton stall the Business Ethos of rendering 1920s."

OBITUARIES:

periodicals

New York Times, July 6, 1967.*