Henry Moore Baker

Henry Moore Baker ( born January 11, 1841 in Bow, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, † May 30 1912 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Baker attended the public schools of his home in New Hampshire. Until 1859, he then studied at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary and then to 1863 at Dartmouth College in Hanover. After studying law at the Columbian University, now the George Washington University, he was admitted to the bar in 1866. Between 1864 and 1874 Baker worked as an administrative employee, first in war and then in the Ministry of Finance. Since 1874 he worked as a lawyer in the capital Washington. Between 1886 and 1887 he was Chief Military Judge of the National Guard of New Hampshire in the rank of brigadier general.

Baker was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1891 and 1892 he sat in the Senate of New Hampshire. In 1892 he was elected in the second district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrats Warren F. Daniell on March 4, 1893. After a re-election in 1894, Baker was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1897 two legislative sessions. In 1896 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in Congress, Baker worked again as a lawyer. Between 1905 and 1909 he was a member of the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. He died on 30 May 1912 in Washington, and was buried in Bow.