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Preceded by
  
John Martin

Succeeded by
  
Joseph R. Burton

Party
  
Republican Party

Name
  
Lucien Baker

Political party
  
Republican


Lucien Baker

Born
  
June 8, 1846 Cleveland, Ohio (
1846-06-08
)

Alma mater
  
University of Michigan Law School

Role
  
Member of the United States Senate

Died
  
June 21, 1907, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States

Education
  
University of Michigan, Adrian College, University of Michigan Law School

Lucien Baker (June 8, 1846 – June 21, 1907) was a United States Senator from Kansas.

Baker was born near Cleveland, Ohio and moved with his parents to Morenci, Michigan. There he attended the public schools and graduated from Adrian College and from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

He was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced practice in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1869. From 1872 to 1874, he was a city attorney of Leavenworth.

From 1893 to 1895, he was a member of the State Senate and was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate. He served from March 4, 1895 to March 3, 1901 but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination. He was the chairman of the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Fifty-sixth Congress)

Afterward his term in the Senate, he resumed the practice of law in Leavenworth, where he died on June 21, 1907; he is interred in Mount Muncie Cemetery.

He was the brother of John Harris Baker.

References

Lucien Baker Wikipedia