Nathaniel B. Baker

Nathaniel Bradley Baker (September 29, 1818– September 11, 1876) was born in Henniker, NH. He "read" law under Franklin Pierce before Pierce became president. Baker passed the bar in 1842.

Baker's father, Abel J. Baker, Jr., owned a lumber mill and built a 2 1/2 story home for his family in the village of West Concord, NH in 1821 with lumber from his own mill. His son, Nathaniel, established a newspaper called the "Patriot" with a co-owner. He served as Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in 1845. The following year, he was County Clerk for Merrimack County. In 1851, he assumed the position of Chief Fire Engineer for the city of Concord's Fire Department. Active as a politician from Concord, New Hampshire, he served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and as Governor of the state from 1854-1855 (one term).

After Baker's term as governor, he moved to Iowa to support the free state and was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1859. He was Iowa's Adjutant General throughout the Civil War serving from 1861 until his death in Des Moines in 1876. A photo of a grave monument in his honor is posted online.

External links

• Baker at New Hampshire's Division of Historic Resources

Political offices
Preceded by Noah Martin	Governor of New Hampshire 1854–1855	Succeeded by Ralph Metcalf

Persondata
Name	Baker, Nathaniel
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Short description	American politician
Date of birth	1818
Place of birth
Date of death	1876
Place of death