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Submitted: 9/27/13 • Approved: 10/9/18 • Last Updated: 10/12/18 • R8661-G0-S3
Lucien Baker
June 8, 1846 - June 21, 1907
Lawyer State Senator United States Senator
Lucien Baker was born in Fulton County, Ohio. His ancestry was of English and Dutch. His parents were old-time Methodists. His father was a lawyer and insisted that his three sons studied law, and they did. His family moved to Monrenci, Lenawee County, Michigan when he was a child. He attended the local schools and entered Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan at 18. He left collage when he was a junior and took a job as a student in the law office of Andrew Howell. Adrian Collage conferred upon him the degree of LL. B. In September 1868 he was admitted to the bar. He attended the law department of the University of Michigan the winter of 1868-69. When he finished his legal training at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, he moved to Leavenworth, Kansas and began his practice of law with Lewis Burns.
He was elected city attorney in 1872 and became known as a lawyer of signal ability. He served in that capacity for two years and resigned to devote his full time to his practice of law. He entered politics in 1892 as a Republican in the Leavenworth district which as a Democratic district. He was duly elected, by a large majority, as the State Senator from Leavenworth District. He was very prominent in the legislative fight in 1893. He then ran for the United States Senate in Jan 1895,and won with a tenure of six years. He served in this office from March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1895. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination. Baker was the chairman of the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Fifty-sixth Congress)
He retired in 1901 and began to practice law in Leavenworth, with his only son, Burt Baker..under the firm name of Baker and Baker.
He was in poor health due to the bullet wound he received in 1881. When the famous Thruston-Anthony feud was boiling, Thurston shot at D R Anthony and the bullet went wild and struck Baker down.
Baker had married his wife, Mary Higginbotham, in 1874 and they had two children, Burt who followed his father in the practice of law. Their daughter, Mary, who married Captain Lowndes, a surgeon of the United States Navy.
His brother John Harris Baker, (February 28, 1832 – October 21, 1915) was a US Representative from Indiana and was nominated by Benjamin Harrison as a United States federal judge.
Sources: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.
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Submitted by Ira Sharp Dennis (aka Tootie Dennis)
Contributed on 9/27/13
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