Newton D. Baker Letters 1891-1937

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Newton D. Baker Letters 1891-1937

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Newton Diehl Baker (1871-1937) was a Cleveland, Ohio, city solicitor (1903-1911) and Mayor (1912-1916), and United States Secretary of War (1916-1921). The collection consists of letters and typescript copies of letters from Newton D. Baker to his relatives and political associates, including 211 letters to his wife Elizabeth Baker (1902-1937), 44 letters to his brother, Frank Baker, and sister-in-law, Harriet Baker (1915-1936), three bound volumes of typescript copies of letters to his children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Newton III (1918-1937), and 32 letters from notable political figures.

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Baker, Newton Diehl

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click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry for Newton D. Baker Newton Diehl Baker (1871-1937), was born on December 3, 1871, in Martinsburg, West Virginia, the second of four sons of Newton Diehl and Mary Ann (Dukehart) Baker. Baker entered Johns Hopkins University in 1888 and graduated from there in 1892. That same year, Baker went to Washington and Lee University where he obtained a law degree in 1894. From 1894 to 1896 Baker practiced law in Marti...