Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A shekara ta 2003, Barbour ya zama gwamnan Jamhuriyar Republican na Mississippi tun lokacin da aka sake gina shi lokacin da ya kayar da dan Democrat mai suna Ronnie Musgrove. A matsayinsa na gwamna ya kula da martanin jiharsa ga guguwar Katrina da kuma zubar da man fetur na Deepwater Horizon a shekarar 2010
, bala'i biyu na muhalli mafi muni a jihar tun bayan ambaliyar ruwan kogin Mississippi a 1927. An sa ran Barbour zai zama dan takarar shugaban kasa a shekarar 2012, amma ya sanar da cewa ba zai yi takara ba a watan Afrilun 2011.