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{{Short description|American politician (1886–1970)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = John Miller Baer
| image =JohnMillerBaer.jpg
| image_size = 
| state             = [[North Dakota]]
| district          = [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from North Dakota|1st]]
| predecessor = [[Henry Thomas Helgesen]]
| successor = [[Olger B. Burtness]]
| birth_date        = {{Birth date |1886|3|29}}
| birth_place       = [[Black Creek, Wisconsin|Black Creek]], [[Wisconsin]] [[United States|U.S.]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1970|2|18|1886|3|29}}
| death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| party             = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] ([[Nonpartisan League|NPL]] faction)
| term_start        = August 10, 1917
| term_end          = March 3, 1921
| resting_place     = 
| alma_mater        = [[Lawrence University]]
| profession        = engineer, cartoonist, postmaster
}}
'''John Miller Baer''' (March 29, 1886 – February 18, 1970) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[North Dakota]].

==Early years and education==
Born at [[Black Creek, Wisconsin]], Baer was the son of Capt. John M. Baer and [[Libbie Riley Baer]].{{sfn|Matson|1921|p=82}} His ancestors on the maternal side were the two families Riley and Swing. From the original family of the former descended the poet and humorist, [[James Whitcomb Riley]], and from the latter, the philosopher and preacher. Prof. [[David Swing]], of [[Chicago]]. Baer was also a descendant of the Blairs, an old and favorably known family of [[Southern Ohio]].{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=41}}

Baer attended the public schools of his town. He was graduated from [[Lawrence University]], [[Appleton, Wisconsin]], in 1909.

==Career==
He moved to [[Golden Valley County, North Dakota]], in 1909 and engaged as a civil engineer and in agricultural pursuits from 1909 to 1915 and served as Postmaster of [[Beach, North Dakota]].{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Baer also worked as a cartoonist and furnished cartoons and articles to newspapers. Baer worked for the ''Non-Partisan Leader'' from 1909 to 1917. After resigning as postmaster, Baer relocated to Fargo and cartooned for the ''Fargo Courier-News''.<ref name="auto">[http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/baer_j.htm John Miller Baer Cartoons], library.syr.edu. Accessed November 2, 2022.</ref>

Baer was elected as a member of the [[Nonpartisan League]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.ndsu.edu/digital/files/2010/01/JohnBaerArticleJan2010.pdf |title=John Miller Baer: Nonpartisan LeaguenCartoonist and Congressman |access-date=2010-09-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727115550/http://library.ndsu.edu/digital/files/2010/01/JohnBaerArticleJan2010.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-27 }}</ref> to the [[65th United States Congress|Sixty-fifth]] Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of [[United States Representative]] [[Henry T. Helgesen]], and reelected to the succeeding Congress (August 10, 1917 – March 3, 1921).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture ([[66th United States Congress|Sixty-sixth]] Congress).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the [[67th United States Congress|Sixty-seventh]] Congress in 1920. He resumed activities as a cartoonist and journalist for ''Labor'', the newspaper of the National Railroad Union.<ref name="auto"/>

He died in [[Washington, D.C.]], on February 18, 1970. He was interred in [[Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Silver Spring, Maryland)|Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring, Maryland]].{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

==Sources==
{{CongBio|B000027}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Attribution===
* {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|last=Matson|first=Francis G.|title=Official Congressional Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLITAAAAYAAJ|edition=Public domain|year=1921}} }}
* {{Source-attribution| {{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances Elizabeth |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary Ashton Rice |title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ/page/n41 41] |edition=Public domain |year=1893 |publisher=Moulton |chapter=BAER, MRS. LIBBIE C. RILEY}} }}

==External links==
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* {{Find a Grave|11203526}}
*[https://osucartoons.pastperfectonline.com/vocabulary?keyword=Baer%2C+John%2C+1886-1970&letter=B&searchtype=creator&showsearch=true Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Art Database]

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