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David Baird Sr. (April 7, 1839February 25, 1927) was an Irish-born American politician who served as a
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Biography

A Scots-Irishman born in
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,
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, Baird immigrated to the
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in 1856 and entered the
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business in
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. He moved in 1860 to
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, where he continued in the lumber business and also engaged in
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ing. He was a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Camden County from 1876 to 1880. He also served as the
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of Camden County, New Jersey, from 1887 to 1889, and again from 1895 to 1897. He was a member of the State board of assessors in 1895 and from 1901 to 1909. Baird was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the
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in 1910, but he was appointed on February 23, 1918, to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Hughes. He was subsequently elected as a Republican on November 5, 1918, and until March 3, 1919, when he did not run for reelection. He resumed his former business pursuits in Camden, where he died and was interred in Harleigh Cemetery. Baird was the father of David Baird Jr., also a Senator from New Jersey.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baird, David Sr. 1839 births 1927 deaths American bankers Burials at Harleigh Cemetery, Camden County commissioners in New Jersey Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) New Jersey Republicans Politicians from Camden, New Jersey People from County Londonderry Republican Party United States senators from New Jersey