Barron Harper is a graduate of the University of North Texas where he earned a Master's degree in Accounting in 1985. A Bahá'í since 1967, he and his wife Nancy pioneered to Argentina in 1975 and later to Portugal in 1992 where they still reside. Over the years Harper has served on local and national Bahá'í administrative institutions. He has given talks on the Hands of the Cause in the European and northern and the southern American continents. His articles on these Chief Stewards have been published in various Bahá'í titles.