Bob Barker
Robert William Bob Barker is an American former television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBSs The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longestrunning daytime game show in North American television history, and for hosting Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1974.
Barker was born in Darrington, Washington, and spent most of his youth on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The U.S. Indian Census Rolls, 18851940, list Barker as an official member of the Sioux tribe. His mother, Matilda Valandra , was a school teacher his father, Byron John Barker, was the foreman on the electrical high line through the state of Washington. Barker isSioux. While in Washington, his father fell from a tower and sustained an injury which resulted in his death in 1929. Barker has a halfbrother, Kent Valandra, from Matildas subsequent remarriage. In 1931, the family moved to Springfield, Missouri, where Barker graduated from Central High School in 1941.
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