Tuhia tētahi tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - Ko Barnes te kaitono a te Rōpū Reipa mō te kaitohutohu ā-ture i te tau 1938 engari i hinga ki te kaitono o nāianei ko Paul A. Dever. I rere ano ia i te tau 1940, engari i ngaro te tohu Republican ki a Robert T. Bushnell. He mema a Barnes o te Kaunihera Kawana o Massachusetts mai i te 1943 ki te 1944. I te tau 1944, i hinga ia i te Kawana o mua a Francis E. Kelly hei kaitohutohu ture. I hinga ano a Barnes i a Kelly i te 1946, engari i hinga ia ki a ia i te 1948. He kaitono ia mo te kawana i te tau 1950, engari i ngaro te tohu ki a Arthur W. Coolidge. He mema hoki a Barnes ki te Republican National Convention i te 1940, 1944, 1948
, me te tau 1952.