George Baer Jr. | |
Office1: | Mayor of Frederick |
State2: | Maryland |
District2: | 4th |
Term Start2: | March 4, 1797 |
Term End2: | March 3, 1801 |
Predecessor2: | Thomas Sprigg |
Successor2: | Daniel Hiester |
Term Start3: | March 4, 1815 |
Term End3: | March 3, 1817 |
Predecessor3: | Samuel Ringgold |
Successor3: | Samuel Ringgold |
Office4: | Member of the Maryland House of Delegates |
Term Start4: | 1794 |
Term End4: | 1794 |
Term Start5: | 1808 |
Term End5: | 1809 |
Party: | Federalist |
Birth Place: | Frederick, Province of Maryland, British America |
Death Place: | Frederick, Maryland, U.S. |
Resting Place: | Mount Olivet Cemetery |
George Baer Jr. (1763 – April 3, 1834) was a United States Representative from the fourth district of Maryland, serving from 1797 to 1801 and from 1815 to 1817. He was a slave owner.
George Baer Jr. was born in 1763 in Frederick, Maryland. He attended common schools.[1]
Baer engaged in mercantile pursuits. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1794 and from 1808 to 1809. He was elected as a Federalist to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1797, to March 3, 1801.[1]
Baer was a judge of the orphans’ court of Frederick County in 1813. He was elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth Congress, serving from March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817, afterwards resuming his former mercantile pursuits. He was mayor of Frederick in 1820.[1]
Baer died in Frederick on April 3, 1834. He was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery.[1]