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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJohn Harris BAKER
(1832-1915)
BAKER, John Harris,
(brother of Lucien Baker), a Representative from Indiana; born in
Parma Township, Monroe County, N.Y., February 28, 1832; moved with
his parents to the present county of Fulton, Ohio; attended the
public schools; taught school; attended the Wesleyan University in
Delaware, Ohio, two years; studied law in Adrian, Mich.; was
admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in Goshen, Ind.;
member of the State senate in 1862, but, being a notary public at
the time, was unseated because the State constitution forbid the
simultaneous holding of two lucrative offices; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth
Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1881); declined to be a
candidate for renomination in 1880; resumed the practice of law in
Goshen, Ind.; delegate to the Republican National Convention in
1888; appointed judge of the United States District Court for
Indiana by President Harrision in 1892 and served until his
retirement in 1904; resided in Goshen, Elkhart County, Ind., until
his death on October 21, 1915; interment in Oak Ridge Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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