David Baird Junior

David Baird Jr.

David Baird Jr. (born October 10, 1881 in Camden , New Jersey , †  February 28, 1955 ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of New Jersey in the US Senate .

David Baird was the son of the same name David Baird (1839-1927), who sat from 1918 to 1919 for New Jersey in the Senate. He attended Raymond Academy in his native Camden and the Penn Charter School in Philadelphia , graduated from Lawrenceville School in 1899 and graduated from Princeton in 1903 . Like his father, he then embarked on a career in the wood business and later in the banking industry.

On November 30, 1929, Baird was appointed by New Jersey Governor Morgan Foster Larson to succeed the resigned US Senator Walter Evans Edge , who became US Ambassador to France . He served his mandate in Washington, DC until December 2, 1930. He did not take part in the by-election for this seat; this won again a Republican with Dwight Morrow .

In 1931, Baird was the Republican candidate in the election for governor of New Jersey, but he was clearly defeated by Democrat A. Harry Moore with 40:58 percent of the vote. Then he went back to his previous job as a businessman. In 1938, Governor Harold G. Hoffman appointed him to the Delaware River Joint Commission . He later worked as an insurance broker. He died in February 1955 in Camden and was buried in the local Harleigh Cemetery .

Web links

• David Baird junior in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• David Baird junior in the database of Find a Grave (English)