Baker was the representative for Kansas’s 6th congressional district and was a Populist. He served from 1895 to 1897.
He was previously the representative for Kansas’s 6th congressional district as a Populist from 1893 to 1895; and the representative for Kansas’s 6th congressional district as a Populist from 1891 to 1893.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1891 to Mar 1897, Baker missed 183 of 839 roll call votes, which is 21.8%. This is better than the median of 36.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1897. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- @unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
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