George Baer Jr.

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = George Baer Jr.

| office = Mayor of Frederick

| term_start = 1820

| term_end = 1823

| predecessor = Henry Kuhn

| successor = John L. Harding

| 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_date={{birth year|1763}}

| birth_place=Frederick, Province of Maryland, British America

| death_date={{death date and age|1834|4|3|1763}}

| 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.{{Citation|title=Congress slaveowners|date=2022-01-19|url=https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2022-01-24}}

Early life

George Baer Jr. was born in 1763 in Frederick, Maryland. He attended common schools.{{Cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B000026 |title=Baer, George Jr. |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=2024-03-03}}

Career

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.

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.