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Permanent LinkDaniel S. Baker
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State Representative
Whig
| Boatman | |
| Lee | |
| 1 | |
| 11/30/1846 - 01/02/1848 | |
| 1 |
Born in 1819 in Chemung County, New York, Baker came to Iowa and is recorded in the Lee County 1840 census. In 1850 he resided in Montrose, Lee County, and was a boatman. He was chosen in a special election held in January 1847 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Representative Reuben Conlee of Lee County who died before his term expired. Baker gave his resignation in September 1847. He next shows up in the Plumas County, California, 1870 census, and applied for a placer mining claim in 1876. Mr. Baker died in 1883.