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Senator Baker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ84899951
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Senator Baker may refer to:

Members of the United States Senate

David J. Baker (1792–1869), U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1830

Edward D. Baker (1811–1861), U.S. Senator from Oregon from 1860 to 1861

Howard Baker (1925–2014), U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985

Lucien Baker (1846–1907), U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1895 to 1901

United States state senate members

Arkansas State Senate

Gilbert Baker (politician) (born 1956)

Florida State Senate

Carey Baker (born 1963)

J. Edwin Baker (1899–1963)

Hawaii State Senate

Rosalyn Baker (born 1946)

Illinois State Senate

B. Frank Baker (1864–1939)

Charles W. Baker (1876–1963)

Indiana State Senate

John Baker (1832–1915)

Kentucky State Senate

Walter Arnold Baker (1937–2010)

Maine State Senate

Linda Baker (born 1948)

Maryland State Senate

Walter M. Baker (1927–2012)

William Benjamin Baker (1840–1911)

Massachusetts State Senate

Charles H. Baker (1847–1919)

Daniel C. Baker (1816–1863)

Michigan State Senate

Herbert F. Baker (1862–1930)

Nebraska State Senate

Roy Baker (politician) (born 1945)

Tom Baker (Nebraska politician) (born 1948)

New Hampshire State Senate

Henry Moore Baker (1841–1912)

New Jersey State Senate

Horace Baker (1869–1941)

New York State Senate

Isaac V. Baker Jr.

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