William Baker (Kansas politician)

William Baker (* April 29, 1831 in Centerville, Washington County, Pennsylvania, † February 11, 1910 in Lincoln, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1897 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Baker attended the public schools of his home and then to 1856 the Waynesboro College. He then worked as a teacher. In 1859, Baker moved to Iowa, where he also worked as a teacher in Council Bluffs. After studying law he was admitted to the bar in 1860. This profession has never exercised Baker. In 1865 he returned to Pennsylvania, where he settled down in Beallsville in Washington County. There he was engaged in trade.

In 1878, Baker moved into the Lincoln County in Kansas. There he dealt with agriculture and above all the livestock. Politically, he joined the movement emerged from the Farmer Populist Party. In the congressional elections of 1890 he was elected state- wide as a candidate of his party in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1891, the successor of the Republican Erastus J. Turner. In 1892, then was tuned in Kansas to electoral districts and Baker was elected to Congress again in the sixth district of his state. After another re-election in 1894, Baker was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1897 a total of three legislative periods.

In 1896 he gave up another candidacy. He went back to his agricultural activities. William Baker died in February 1910 in Lincoln, and was also buried there.