Osmyn Baker

Osmyn Baker ( born May 18, 1800 Amherst, Massachusetts, † February 9, 1875 in Northampton, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1840 and 1845 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Osmyn Baker attended Amherst College and then studied until 1822 at Yale College. After a subsequent law degree in 1825 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Amherst in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In the years 1833 and 1834 and again from 1836 to 1837 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was a member of the Whig party.

After the death of Mr James C. Alvord Baker was at the due election for the sixth seat of Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 14 January 1840. After two re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1845 Congress. From 1841 to 1843 he headed the Committee on Accounts. The time from 1841 was marked by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico.

In 1844, Baker gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer in North Hampton. He was also the first president of the charity Smith Charities. He died on February 9, 1875 in Northampton.