- Born
- Died
- Nicknames
- Shep
- Hizzoner
- Mr. Mayor
- Height6′ 0½″ (1.84 m)
- Marion Barry Jr. was born on March 6, 1936 in Itta Bena, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Slam (1998), Ward 8: The Past, the Present, the Future (2014) and Chuck Brown: The Party Roll (2007). He was married to Cora Masters-Barry, Effi Slaughter Cowell, Mary M. Treadwell and Blantie Evans. He died on November 23, 2014 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- SpousesCora Masters-Barry(January 8, 1994 - November 23, 2014) (his death)Effi Slaughter Cowell(February 17, 1978 - March 5, 1993) (divorced, 1 child)Mary M. Treadwell(May 1972 - 1977) (divorced)Blantie Evans(1962 - 1964) (annulled)
- lisp, especially noticeable when enunciating words which include the letter 's'.
- Mayor of Washington D.C. during the early 1990's, Barry was arrested, convicted and served time for possession of crack cocaine. He later was elected to the city council and then re-elected mayor.
- Stepfather of Lalanya Masters.
- Was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
- Third of ten children born to Marion Barry, Sr. and Mattie Cummings Barry. His father died when Barry was in elementary school and his mother moved the family to Memphis, Tennessee, USA for better employment prospects than small town rural Itta Bena, Mississippi, USA.
- His nickname, "Shep," was given to him by friends when he first became a nationally known civil rights leader, and was a reference to a politician from the Soviet Union, Dmitri Shepilov, who, while Shepilov was the Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, participated in a plot to oust Soviet leader 'Nikita Khrushchev in 1957. Barry readily adopted the nickname, and even took the full last name as his own middle name (Barry had not been given a middle name on his birth certificate), thereafter being known as Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
- Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
- We've got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops. They ought to go. I'm going to say that right now But we need African - American businesspeople to be able to take their places too.
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