Background
Baer, John Miller was born on March 29, 1886 in Blackcreek, Wisconsin, United States. Son of John Mason and Libbie Caroline (Riley) Baer.
United States representative politician
Baer, John Miller was born on March 29, 1886 in Blackcreek, Wisconsin, United States. Son of John Mason and Libbie Caroline (Riley) Baer.
Bachelor of Arts, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1909. Student Federal School of Art, Minneapolis, and National Art School, Washington, District of Columbia.
He moved to Beach, Golden Valley County, North Dakota, in 1909 and engaged as a civil engineer and in agricultural pursuits from 1909–1915 and served as Postmaster of Beach, North Dakota. Baer also worked as a cartoonist and furnished cartoons and articles to newspapers. Baer worked for the Non-Partisan Leader from 1909 to 1917.
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-sixth Congress).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-seventh Congress in 1920. He resumed activities as a cartoonist and journalist for Labor, the newspaper of the National Railroad Union.
He died in Washington, District of Columbia, February 18, 1970. He was interred in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Member 65th and 66th Congresses (1917-1921), 1st North Dakota District. Member of advisory board labor education, Nutrition and Food Conservation Branch, Food Distribution Administration, United States Department of Agriculture. Member Beta Sigma Phi.
Club: National Press.
Married Estelle G. Kennedy, December 28, 1910. Children: John Mason, Alfred Sherman, Byron.