then served as the president and the chairman from 1969 to 1974 and the chairman of Federal Home Loan Bank in Atlanta, Georgia from 1977 to 1981. Barr died of a heart attack in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, and was interred in Leeds Episcopal Church Cemetery in Hume, Virginia. References External links US Treasury - Biography of Secretary Joseph W. Barr US Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Barr Notes December 16, 1981 speech at DePauw University 1959 TV News segment 1918 births 1996 deaths 20th-century American politicians United States Navy personnel of World War II DePauw University alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni People from Knox County, Indiana United States Secretaries of the Treasury Lyndon B. Johnson administration cabinet members Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana Chairs of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation