John Harris Baker

John Harris Baker ( born February 28, 1832 in Parma, Monroe County, New York, † October 21, 1915 in Goshen, Indiana) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1875 and 1881 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Baker was the older brother of U.S. Senator Lucien Baker (1846-1907) from Kansas. Even in his childhood, he came with his parents in the future Fulton County, Ohio, where he attended the public schools. Then he taught himself for two years as a teacher before he continued his own education at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware. After a subsequent study of law in Adrian (Michigan ) and its made ​​in 1857 admitted to the bar he began in Goshen (Indiana) to work in this profession.

Politically, Baker member of the Republican Party. In 1862 he was elected to the Senate from Indiana. But since he worked at that time as a state notary, he was soon excluded again from this body, because it was forbidden according to the Constitution of Indiana, exercise two public offices simultaneously. In the congressional elections of 1874 Baker was in the 13th electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Williams on March 4, 1875. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1881 three legislative periods.

In 1880, Baker gave up another candidacy. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again in Goshen. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, at the Benjamin Harrison was nominated as a presidential candidate. Between 1892 and 1904 he was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Indiana; Here he followed to the Federal Court of Appeal exchanged William Allen Woods. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on October 21, 1915 in Goshen.