Barrett, who flipped Michigan’s 7th Congressional District red on Election Day, passed around a letter Thursday asking fellow incoming House freshman to leave room 1232 in Longworth House Office Building available for him to select when his turn the workspace lottery came up.

WASHINGTON: Republican Tom Barrett won election to U.S. House in Michigan's 7th Congressional District on Wednesday. Republican Tom Barrett won a U.S. House seat in Michigan's, flipping a district previously held by Democrats.

Rep.-elect Tom Barrett (R-MI) will start his freshman term in Congress in the same office his great-grandfather occupied 70 years earlier when he passed consequential legislation to change the Pledge of Allegiance.

An incoming Republican congressman is offering bipartisan thanks to his future colleagues for helping him to snag an official workspace that was once occupied by his great-grandfather. Tom Barrett, who earlier this month flipped the open seat vacated by Rep.

Rep.-elect Tom Barrett (R-Mich.) will literally be following in his great-grandfather’s footsteps come January, after successfully securing the House office space once occupied by his congressman ancestor.