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BAKER, LEWIS, journalist, legislator, was born in 1832, in
Belmont county, Ohio. He was educated in the log
schoolhouse and the country printing office; admitted to
practice law in the supreme and other courts of Ohio; and
declined his party nomination to congress when in his 25th
year. He has edited and published at different periods the
Cambridge Jeffersonian, Ohio; Daily Ohio Statesman, of
Columbus; Daily Aurora, of Zanesville; the Wheeling Register,
West Virginia, and the St. Paul Globe, Minnesota. He has been
a member and presiding officer of the West Virginia state
senate; president of the St. Paul school board; and envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Nicaraugua,
Costa Rice, and Salvador. He has been connected with
many business enterprises, and has always taken an active
part in politics, and was a member of the two democratic
national conventions of 1884 and 1892.