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James Solomon Barcus (March 18, 1863- May 3, 1920) was a book publisher, newspaper and magazine proprietor, and politician.

He was born in Sullivan County, Indiana the son of a blacksmith.

He bought Orison Swett Marden's Success Magazine. He acquired the [[Terre Haute Tribune in 1902.

He married Bettie Belle Tichenor.

He bought the Terre Haute Gazette and merged it with the Tribune to form the Tribune-Gazette.

He wrote The Science of Selling for door-to-door salesmen. He wrote The Messages and Papers of Congress. He wrote the play The Governor Boss and had it adapted to film. He also had it novelized. He wrote the novel The Repentance of Croesus.

He worked as an itinerant bookseller before graduating from the University of Michigan Law School in 1899.

He wrote using the pseudonym Sucrab (Barcus backwards). He advocated for the Republican Party and was a critic of Democrats including in a satire he wrote titled The Bookerang taking on a speech by William Jennings Bryan.

He campaigned for a seat in the U.S. congress to succeed George Washington Faris but lost by three votes to Elias S. Holliday. He was elected to the Indiana Senate.

He died in Newark, New Jersey.