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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New HampshireBAKER, Henry Moore
(1841—1912)
BAKER, Henry Moore, a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Bow, near Concord, N.H., January 11, 1841; attended the common schools, Pembroke, Tilton, and Hopkinton Academies, New Hampshire; was graduated from the New Hampshire Conference Seminary in 1859, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1863, and the law school of Columbian (now George Washington) University, Washington, D.C., in 1866; was admitted to the bar in 1866; clerk in the War and Treasury Departments 1864-1874; commenced the practice of law in Washington, D.C., in 1874; judge advocate general of the National Guard of New Hampshire in 1886 and 1887 with rank of brigadier general; member of the State senate in 1891 and 1892; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 3, 1893-March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed the practice of his profession in Washington, D.C., but retained his legal residence in Bow, N.H.; member of the New Hampshire house of representatives 1905-1909; died in Washington, D.C., May 30, 1912; interment in Alexander Cemetery, Bow, N.H.
Baker, Henry Moore. The beginnings of the revolution in New Hampshire
. Concord, N.H.: Rimford printing company, 1903.
———. The first siege of Louisburg, 1745; an address delivered before the New Hampshire society of colonial wars September 2, 1909
. Concord, N.H.: The Rumford press, 1909.
———. Gen. Enoch Poor
. Concord, N.H.: N.p., 1906.
———. General Nathaniel Folsom; an address delivered April 8, 1903 before the New Hampshire historical society
. [Concord? N.H.: 1904?].
———. How to use silver. An addresses delivered before the New Hampshire club, at Young’s hotel, Boston, Mass., October 9, 1895
. Washington: C. M. Robinson & co., 1895.
———. New Hampshire in the battle of Bunker Hill. An address delivered before the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution at Concord, N.H., June 14, 1902
. Concord, N.H.: The Rumford Press. 1903.
———. New Hampshire in the struggle for independence; address delivered before the New Hampshire historical society, February 10, 1904
. Concord, N.H.: The Rumford Press, 1905.
———. The pilgrim Puritans. A lecture delivered in All Soul’s church, Washington, D. C., Sunday evening, December 22, 1889
. Washington: Gibson bros., printers, 1890.
Kidder, Frederic. History of the First New Hampshire Regiment in the War of the Revolution. Henry Moore Baker’s New Hampshire at the Battle of Bunker Hill
. With a new introduction by Richard F. Upton. [Hampton, N.H.]: P. E. Randall, 1973.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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