Henry Moore Baker

Henry Moore Baker

Henry Moore Baker (born January 11, 1841 in Bow , Merrimack County , New Hampshire , †  May 30, 1912 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Baker attended public schools in his New Hampshire home. Until 1859 he studied at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary and then until 1863 at Dartmouth College in Hanover . After studying law at Columbian University , now George Washington University , he was admitted to the bar in 1866. Between 1864 and 1874, Baker worked as an administrative clerk, first in the War Department and then in the Treasury. From 1874 he worked as a lawyer in the federal capital Washington. Between 1886 and 1887 he was Chief Military Justice of the New Hampshire National Guard with the rank of Brigadier General.

Baker was a member of the Republican Party . He was a member of the New Hampshire Senate in 1891 and 1892 . In 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second constituency of New Hampshire, where he succeeded the Democrat Warren F. Daniell on March 4, 1893 . After a re-election in 1894, Baker was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1897 . In 1896 he renounced another candidacy.

After his tenure in Congress, Baker returned to practice as a lawyer. Between 1905 and 1909 he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives . He died in Washington on May 30, 1912 and was buried in Bow.

Web links

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

• Henry Moore Baker in the database of Find a Grave (English)