Stephen Baker (New York)

Stephen Baker ( born August 12, 1819 in New York City, † June 9, 1875 in Ogden, Utah ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1863 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Baker was born about four and a half years after the end of the British - American War in New York City. In the following years he attended community schools. He then worked as an importer and wholesaler of woolen goods. In 1850 he moved to Poughkeepsie in Dutchess County. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1860 for the 37th Congress Baker was in the twelfth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Lewis Beale on March 4, 1861. He retired after March 3, 1863 from the Congress.

Baker gave up his business activities and went into retirement. On 9 June 1875, he died on the way to California on a train at Ogden - a journey which he made for health reasons. His body was then buried in the Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie.