California State Officials Biographies 1911

JOHN E. BAKER

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS: First District
Counties: Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Del Norte, El Dorado, Humboldt, Lassen, 
Mariposa, Modoc, Mono, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Nevada, Siskiyou, Tehama, 
Trinity, and Tuolumne (19 counties). Population (1910) 184,274

JOHN E. BAKER (Democrat) of Alturas, Modoc County, was born on a farm near 
Knoxville, Knox County, Illinois, February 22, 1863. Soon after his parents 
moved to Sedalia, Missouri, and remaining there but a short time, removed to 
Knoxville. In 1873 moved with his parents to Lassen County, California; worked 
on the ranch and farm and attended the public school, working his own way; 
attended the grammar school at Susanville, and the State Normal School at San 
Jose, California, 1882-1884. In the spring of 1885 entered the law office of 
Judge E. V. Spencer of Susanville, where he studied law and was admitted to the 
bar in the fall of 1885; was his party's candidate for District Attorney of 
Lassen County in 1886. December 6, 1886, moved to Alturas, where he has resided 
every since, engaging in the practice of the law. In 1894 was elected District 
Attorney of Modoc County, which office he held four years, 1895-1898; at the 
general election in 1898 was the Democratic nominee for State Senator. Elected 
Judge of the Superior Court of California in and for the county of Modoc in 1902 
and reelected in 1908, which position he resigned December 19, 1910. Admitted to 
the Supreme Court of Oregon, the United States Circuit and District Courts of 
California, United States Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United 
States; was elected to the Sixty-second Congress against W. F. Englebright 
(Republican), W. H. Morgan (Socialist), and C. H. Essex (Prohibitionist).
 

Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913