Background
Baer, George was born in 1763 in Frederick, Maryland, United States. Son of George Baer.
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Baer, George was born in 1763 in Frederick, Maryland, United States. Son of George Baer.
Baer attended the common schools as a child, and later engaged in mercantile pursuits.
He was later elected as a Federalist to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1797 to March 3, 1801. 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 also mayor of Frederick in 1820, and died there in 1834.
He is interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
He became a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1794. He again served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1808 and 1809, and also as a judge of the orphans’ court of Frederick County in 1813.