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BAKER, JAMES M., lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born
July 22, 1821, in Robeson county, N. C. In 1862 he was
elected by the legislature of Florida as senator in the
confederate congress; and was re-elected in 1864. In 1866
he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court; and
in 1881 was appointed Judge of the fourth judicial circuit. He
died June 20, 1892, in Jacksonville, Fla.