# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-barton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:05:38.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-barton"
name: "Joe Barton"
slug: "joe-barton"
description: "Joseph Linus Barton is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Texas's 6th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 2019. The district included Arlington, part of Fort Worth, and several small towns and rural areas south of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. He was also a member of the Tea Party Caucus. In 2014, Barton became the longest-serving member of the Texas congressional delegation."
tagline: "American politician; U.S. Representative for Texas"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Linus_Barton-Congressman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1949-09-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 170
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump