Horace Baker

For the English soccer player, see Horace Baker (footballer).

Horace B. Baker (January 23, 1869 – December 7, 1941) was an American politician who served as Acting Governor of the state of New Jersey. He was the nephew of Andrew D. Baker.

Baker was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1869. He was a member of New Jersey Senate between 1894 and 1906. Then he became the Acting Governor of New Jersey and served between 1909 and 1910. Then he served as the Governor. He died in New York City in 1941.

Political offices
Preceded by John Franklin Fort	Governor of New Jersey 1910–1911	Succeeded by Woodrow Wilson

Governors of New Jersey

Proprietary Province	Carteret

East New Jersey	Carteret Barclay Hamilton Basse Hamilton

West New Jersey	Byllynge Coxe Hamilton Basse Hamilton

Dominion of New England (1688–89)	Andros

Royal Governors	Viscount Cornbury Baron Lovelace Ingoldesby (Lt. Gov.) Hunter Burnet Montgomerie Morris (acting) Cosby Anderson (acting) Hamilton (acting) Lord De La Warr Morris Hamilton (acting) Reading (acting) Belcher Reading (acting) Pownall (Lt. Gov.) Reading (acting) Bernard Boone Hardy Franklin

Post-Colonial	Livingston Paterson Howell Bloomfield Ogden W.S. Pennington M. Dickerson Williamson Vroom Southard Seeley Vroom P. Dickerson W. Pennington Haines Stratton Haines G. Fort Price Newell Olden Parker Ward Randolph Parker Bedle McClellan Ludlow Abbett Green Abbett Werts Griggs Voorhees Murphy Stokes J. Fort Wilson Fielder Edge Edwards Silzer Moore Larson Moore Hoffman Moore Edison Edge Driscoll Meyner Hughes Cahill Byrne Kean Florio Whitman DiFrancesco McGreevey Codey Corzine Christie

Book:Governors of New Jersey

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Horace Baker

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