Perren Baker

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Perren Earle Baker

|image = Perren Baker.jpg

|alt = An ovular photographic portrait of a man in a jacket and tie

|caption = Baker in 1924

|office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

|term_start = June 28, 1926

|term_end = August 22, 1935

|predecessor = New district

|successor = August Flamme

|constituency = Cypress

|term_start1 = July 18, 1921

|term_end1 = June 28, 1926

|alongside1 = Charles Pingle (1925–1926)
William Johnston (1921–1925)

|predecessor1 = Nelson Spencer

|successor1 = Charles Pingle

|constituency1 = Medicine Hat

|office2 = Alberta Minister of Education

|term_start2 = August 31, 1921

|term_end2 = September 3, 1935

|predecessor2 = George P. Smith

|successor2 = William Aberhart

|birth_date = August 10, 1877

|birth_place = Blenheim, Ontario{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ACvTAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Baker%2C+Perren+Earle%22|title=Who's who in Canada|year=1941}}

|death_date = {{death date and age|1974|2|13|1877|8|10}}

|death_place = Vancouver, British Columbia{{cite news |title=P.E. Baker dies; chose Alberta rose emblem |newspaper=Edmonton Journal |date=February 26, 1974 |page=36 }}

|party = United Farmers of Alberta

|spouse = Blanche Randall (1905–1916)
Edna A. Brown (1920 – c. 1974)

|children = Albert T. Baker, Elizabeth Baker (Mather), Andrew Baker, Emerson Baker

|alma_mater = McMaster University, University of Chicago

|occupation = Farmer

}}

Perren Earle Baker (August 10, 1877 – February 13, 1974) was a Canadian politician who served as Alberta's Minister of Education from 1921 until 1935.{{cite web |url=http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ItemDisplay.asp?sessionKey=1143478259019_206_191_57_199&l=0&lvl=1&v=0&coll=1&itm=137173&rt=1&bill=1 |title=Perren Earle Baker fonds |publisher=Archives Canada |access-date=2009-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725185150/http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ItemDisplay.asp?sessionKey=1143478259019_206_191_57_199&l=0&lvl=1&v=0&coll=1&itm=137173&rt=1&bill=1 |archive-date=2011-07-25 |url-status=dead }}