Ezra Baker

Ezra Baker (* around 1765 in Tuckerton , Ocean County , Province of New Jersey ; † unknown) was an American politician . Between 1815 and 1817 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ezra Baker's family moved to what was then East Jersey shortly after he was born . After studying medicine and becoming a doctor, he began to work in this profession. From 1799 he lived in Absecon . Between February 18, 1813 and March 1, 1815, he was in charge of Customs at Great Egg Harbor . Politically, Baker was a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In the congressional elections of 1814 he was elected for the fifth seat of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded William Coxe on March 4, 1815 . Until March 3, 1817 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress .

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Baker and his sons moved west in 1818 to an area known in the sources as "Wabash Country", the location of which can no longer be specified with certainty today. Possibly it was what is now Wabash County in Illinois . There he grew plants from whose seeds castor oil was obtained. With it he supplied the market in New Orleans . Nothing is known about the further life of Ezra Baker. He died in his new home at an unknown date.

Web links

• Ezra Baker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)