Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association, 1902. p. 69 BAKER, HENRY M., lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 1841, in Bow, N. H. He graduated from the New Hampshire Conference seminary in 1859, Dartmouth College in 1863, and the Columbian College Law school in 1866, and admitted to the bar the same year. He was a clerk in the war and treasury departments, and later practiced law in Washington, D. C. He was judge-advocate-general of the National guard of New Hampshire in 1886-87, with the rank of brigadier-general; and was a member of the state senate in 1891-92. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a republican from the second district of New Hampshire, and in 1894 was re-elected by a greatly increased majority. He was not again a candidate for re-election. In congress he served on the judiciary and other important committees. Several of his speeches were printed in pamphlet form and extensively circulated.