Baker, Jehu

Born: 1822-11-04 Fayette County, Kentucky

Died: 1903-03-01 Belleville, Illinois

Flourished: 1846 to 1903 Belleville, Illinois

Jehu Baker, attorney, was admitted to the bar in 1846 and took up practice in Belleville. He ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1858 as the candidate of the Whigs and Republicans, and but was elected to that body as a Republican in 1864.

Biographical Directory of the American Congress 1774-1996 (Alexandria, VA: CQ Staff Directories, 1997), 608; Howard W. Allen and Vincent A. Lacey, eds., Illinois Elections, 1818-1990 (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992), 11, 13, 143, 159; Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 21 September 1858, 3:1; Gravestone, Green Mount Protestant Cemetery, Belleville, IL.