George Baer Jr. (1763April 3, 1834) was a slave owner
and
United States Representative
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from the
fourth district of
Maryland
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, serving from 1797 to 1801 and from 1815 to 1817.
Baer attended the common schools as a child, and later engaged in mercantile pursuits. He became a member of the
Maryland House of Delegates
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in 1794. He was later elected as a
Federalist to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1797, to March 3, 1801. He again served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1808 and 1809, and also as a judge of the orphans’ court of
Frederick County in 1813. He was elected as a
Federalist to the Fourteenth Congress, serving from March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817, afterwards resuming his former mercantile pursuits. He was also mayor of
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Nobility
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in 1820, and died there in 1834. He is interred in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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1763 births
1834 deaths
Maryland state court judges
Members of the Maryland House of Delegates
Mayors of Frederick, Maryland
Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland
Burials at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Frederick, Maryland)
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