John Harris Baker

Republican Representative of Indiana's 13th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

February 28, 1832 (83 years old)

Birthday

October 21, 1915

Death

Served three terms as a United States Representative from Indiana (1875-1881)
Served as a United States District Judge for the District of Indiana (1892-1902)
Born in New York and later moved to Ohio, where he attended and taught in common schools
Received an Artium Magister degree from Wesleyan University in 1879
Admitted to the bar in 1857 after reading law in Michigan
Entered private practice in Goshen, Indiana from 1857 to 1875
Unsuccessfully challenged an election to the Indiana Senate in 1863
Declined to seek renomination to Congress in 1880 and resumed private practice
Was a delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention
Nominated to the federal bench by President Benjamin Harrison in 1892
Retired from the bench in 1902 and resided in Goshen until his death in 1915
Brother of Lucien Baker, a United States Senator from Kansas
Interred in Oakridge Cemetery in Goshen, Indiana