John M. Baer

John Miller Baer
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Dakota's 1st district
In office August 10, 1917 – March 3, 1921
Preceded by	Henry Thomas Helgesen
Succeeded by	Olger B. Burtness
Personal details
Born	(1886-03-29)March 29, 1886 Black Creek, Wisconsin U.S.
Died	February 18, 1970(1970-02-18) (aged 83) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party	Republican Party (NPL faction)
Alma mater	Lawrence University
Profession	engineer, cartoonist, postmaster

John Miller Baer (March 29, 1886 – February 18, 1970) was a U.S. Representative from North Dakota.

Born at Black Creek, Wisconsin, Baer was the son of Capt. John M. Baer and Libbie Riley Baer.^[1] His ancestors on the maternal side were the two families Riley and Swing. From the original family of the former descended the poet and humorist, James Whitcomb Riley, and from the latter, the philosopher and preacher. Prof. David Swing, of Chicago. Baer was also a descendant of the Blairs, an old and favorably known family of Southern Ohio.^[2]

Baer attended the public schools of his town. He was graduated from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1909.

He moved to Golden Valley County, North Dakota, in 1909 and engaged as a civil engineer and in agricultural pursuits from 1909 to 1915 and served as Postmaster of Beach, North Dakota.^{[citation needed]}

Baer also worked as a cartoonist and furnished cartoons and articles to newspapers. Baer worked for the Non-Partisan Leader from 1909 to 1917. After resigning as postmaster, Baer relocated to Fargo and cartooned for the Fargo Courier-News.^[3]

Baer was elected as a member of the Nonpartisan League^[4] to the Sixty-fifth Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Henry T. Helgesen, and reelected to the succeeding Congress (August 10, 1917 – March 3, 1921). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-sixth Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-seventh Congress in 1920. He resumed activities as a cartoonist and journalist for Labor, the newspaper of the National Railroad Union.^[3]

He died in Washington, D.C., on February 18, 1970. He was interred in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring, Maryland.^{[citation needed]}

• United States Congress. "John M. Baer (id: B000027)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Matson, Francis G. (1921). Official Congressional Directory (Public domain ed.).
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "BAER, MRS. LIBBIE C. RILEY". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 41.

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