I'm sooooo glad Barbour's never had to suffer...
Barbour was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, where he was raised, the youngest of three sons of Grace LeFlore (née Johnson) and Jeptha Fowlkes Barbour, Jr.[2] Barbour is a descendant of Walter Leake,[citation needed] who was Mississippi's third governor as well as a U.S. senator. His father, a lawyer, died when Barbour was two years old.[citation needed]
He attended the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, but skipped the first semester of his senior year to work on Richard Nixon's 1968 election campaign.[citation needed]At the age of twenty-two, he ran the 1970 census for the state of Mississippi.[citation needed] He enrolled at the University of Mississippi School of Law, receiving a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1972.
Subsequently he joined his father's law firm in Yazoo City.
