Lucien Baker

Lucien Baker

Lucien Baker (born June 8, 1846 in Cleveland , Ohio , †  June 21, 1907 in Leavenworth , Kansas ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Kansas between 1895 and 1901 in the US Senate .

Born in Ohio, Lucien Baker moved with his parents to Michigan at an early age , where the family settled in Morenci . He attended public schools, earned his college degree in Adrian, and passed his law exams at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . In 1868 he was inducted into the bar, after which he moved to Kansas and began practicing law in Leavenworth. From 1872 to 1874 he was the city's trial lawyer.

Baker first became politically active in 1893 when he entered the Kansas Senate , where he remained until 1895. On March 4 of this year he moved to the US Senate in Washington , where he succeeded the Democrat John Martin . After a six-year term in office, his party did not put him up for re-election; the nomination went to Joseph R. Burton , who was later also victorious in the election and whom he narrowly defeated in 1895. During his time in the Senate, among other things, he was chairman of the Committee on Public Service .

Lucien Baker then withdrew from politics and worked again as a lawyer in Leavenworth, where he died in 1907. His older brother John was also a politician and sat for Indiana in the US House of Representatives from 1875 to 1881 .

Web links

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

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