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'''Stringfellow Barr''' ([[January 15]], [[1897]]-[[February 3]], [[1982]]) was an [[historian]], an [[author]], and a former president of [[St. John's College, U. S.|St. Johns College]] in [[Annapolis, Maryland]]. He co-founded the [[Great Books]] program. He established and was president of the [[Foundation for World Government]] from [[1948]] to [[1958]].

In [[1959]], Barr was one of a number of signatories to a petition asking the U. S. Congress to abolish the [[House Committee on Unamerican Activities]]. Other notable signatories included [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], [[Reinhold Niebuhr]], and [[Paul Tillett]].

He was born in [[Suffolk, Virginia]] and died in [[Alexandria, Virginia]].