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Nathaniel B. Baker

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Nathaniel B. Baker

24th Governor of New Hampshire

    Nathaniel Bradley Baker

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    • 1st Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1 
    • Birth Date:
    • 29 Sep 1818 
    • Birth Location:
    • Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
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    • Death Date:
    • 13 Sep 1876 
    • Death Location:
    • Des Moines, Polk, Iowa 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa 
    • Notes: 

    • 24th Governor of New Hampshire

      Some published sources incorrectly give Nathaniel B. Baker's death date as 11 SEP 1876. The correct date is 13 SEP 1876.

      Nathaniel Bradley Baker, born on September 29, 1818, in Henniker, New Hampshire, was an influential American politician and military leader. He received a liberal education before entering Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1839. After studying law under Franklin Pierce, Asa Fowler, and Charles H. Peaslee, he was admitted to the Bar in 1842.

      Baker began his political career as a Democrat, serving as Clerk of the Merrimack County Court of Common Pleas in 1845, and later as Merrimack County Clerk. He was also a co-owner of a Democratic newspaper, the New Hampshire Patriot. In 1851, he was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives and was chosen as Speaker of the House.

      In 1854, Baker was elected as the 24th governor of New Hampshire, serving a single one-year term. His term was marked by the legislature's failure to pass resolutions condemning the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas–Nebraska Act.

      After his term as governor, Baker moved to Clinton, Iowa, where he continued to practice law. He was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1859. His increasingly antislavery views led him to join the Republican Party. At the start of the American Civil War, he was appointed as adjutant general of the Iowa Militia, a position he held until his death on September 13, 1876.

  • Marriages for Nathaniel Bradley Baker

    • Spouse:
    • Lucretia Mitchell Ten Broeck
    • Marriage Date:
    • ABT 1843

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  • Sources for Nathaniel Bradley Baker

    • 3 The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil (Council Bluffs, Iowa), 14 SEP 1876, p. 4, Obituary for Nathaniel Bradley Baker.
    • 4 Bouton, Nathaniel, The History of Concord, From Its First Grant in 1725, to the Organization of the City Government in 1853 . . ., Concord: Benning W. Sanborn (1856), 633.
    • 5 Hammond, Otis Grant, ed., Proceedings of the New Hampshire Historical Society, Vol. 5, 1905-1912, Concord: New Hampshire Historical Society (1917), 39-40, Necrology of sister Caroline Baker Bartlett.
    • 7 Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 1, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1888), 145-146.