Richard Tarvin Baker

Birth Date

1816-09-13

Death Date

1891-02-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Alexandria, Kentucky, attorney, court clerk, and politician. Campbell County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Baker and Elizabeth Armstrong Baker. Married to Sarah B. Bell Baker in 1841. Married to Mary Jane Orr Baker in 1853. Father of William B. Baker, Sarah B. Baker, and Courtland T. Baker. Deputy sheriff of Campbell County from 1838 to 1841. Independently studied law from 1841 to 1842. Graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1843. Clerk of the Campbell County Court in Campbell County from 1843 to 1844. Opened legal practice in 1844 in Alexandria. County attorney in Campbell County from 1846 to 1848. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Campbell County in 1849. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Campbell County and Pendleton County, Kentucky, from 1861 to 1869. Unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Alexandria, p. 181.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Alexandria, p. 10.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), 141-42.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), p. 111.
"Richard Tarvin Baker (1816-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial 22458749, accessed April 18, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22458749/.

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