John Harris Baker

John Harris Baker (February 28, 1832 – October 21, 1915) was a United States representative from Indiana and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana. Education and career Born on February 28, 1832, in Parma, Monroe County, New York, Baker moved with his parents to what is now Fulton County, Ohio, where he attended and later taught in the common schools. He received an Artium Magister degree in 1879 from Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. He read law in Adrian, Michigan and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He entered private practice in Goshen, Indiana from 1857 to 1875. He unsuccessfully challenged the election of Charles Lefferts Murray to the Indiana Senate in 1863, but his challenge failed and he was never seated, although he was paid as if he had been a state senator. Congressional service