 |
History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkRobert BAKER
(1862-1943)
BAKER, Robert, a
Representative from New York; born at Bury St. Edmunds, England, in
April 1862; attended the common schools; immigrated to the United
States in 1882 and settled in Albany, N.Y.; moved to Brooklyn,
N.Y., in 1889; unsuccessful candidate for election to the State
assembly in 1894; auditor of New York City in 1902; elected as a
Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3,
1905); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the
Fifty-ninth Congress and for election in 1906 to the Sixtieth
Congress; became secretary of the New York City Department of Docks
and Ferries in 1906; engaged in stone paving and in the general
real-estate business in Brooklyn, N.Y., until his death there on
June 15, 1943; interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
Related Links
|
24 X 7
Private Tutor
|
24 x 7 Tutor Availability |
|
|
Unlimited Online Tutoring |
|
|
1-on-1 Tutoring |
|
