The Biographical Dictionary of America/Baker, Lewis

BAKER, Lewis, statesman, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1832. He was presiding officer of the West Virginia senate in 1870, and in 1884 a member of the national convention which nominated Grover Cleveland to the presidency. He then removed to Minnesota and became editor of the St. Paul Globe, and in 1893 he was appointed by President Cleveland minister to Nicaragua, Costa Rico and Salvador. He died in Washington, D. C., April 30, 1899.