Samuel Thomas Baird (May 5, 1861 – April 22, 1899) was a

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from

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. Born in Oak Ridge,

Morehouse Parish, Louisiana Morehouse Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 27,979. The parish seat is Bastrop. The parish was formed in 1844. Morehouse Parish comprises the Bastrop, LA Micropolitan Stat ...

, Baird was educated under private tutors and attended the Vincennes (Indiana) University. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1882 and commenced practice in Bastrop,

. He served as district attorney of the sixth judicial district 1884-1888. He served as district judge of the sixth judicial district 1888-1892. He resumed the practice of law in Bastrop. He served as member of the State senate in 1896. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1896. Baird was elected as a

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to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until his death in

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, April 22, 1899. He was interred in Christ Church Cemetery,

Bastrop, Louisiana Bastrop is a city in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. It is the parish seat of Morehouse Parish. The population was 11,365 at the 2010 census, a decrease of 1,623 from the 12,988 tabulation of 2000. The population of Bastrop is 73 percent African A ...

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