Robert Andrew Baxter

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

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

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Robert Andrew Baxter

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| office1 = Ontario MPP

| term_start1 = 1929

| term_end1 = 1934

| predecessor1 = Merton Elvin Scott

| successor1 = Riding abolished

| constituency1 = Oxford South

| party = Liberal

| birth_date = {{birth date|1879|10|16}}

| birth_place = Brownsville, Ontario

| death_date = {{death date and age|1947|7|1|1879|10|16}}

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| occupation = Farmer

| relations =

| spouse = Frances H. Overbaugh (m. 1916)

| children =

}}

Robert Andrew Baxter (October 16, 1879{{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide 1931 |year=1931 |last=Normandin |first=A L}} – 1947) was a farmer and political figure in Ontario. He represented Oxford South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1929 to 1934 as a Liberal.

He was born in Brownsville, the son of John Baxter and Sarah Bigham, and was educated in Brownsville and Tillsonburg. In 1916, he married Frances H Overbaugh (née Louch). Baxter served as reeve for Durham township and as warden for Oxford County. He died in 1947.{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dcoop/old_delmer_trans.htm#135 |title=Old Delmer Transcripts |publisher=Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com |date= |accessdate=2016-07-31}}