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Full name
James McNair Baker
Place of Birth
Burial Place
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
Family
Archibald S. Baker (father), Catherine McCollom Baker (mother), Fannie P. Gilchrist (wife)
Education
Other
Other Education
Davidson College
Occupation
Attorney or Judge
Farmer or Planter
Relation to Slavery
Slaveholder
Church or Religious Denomination
Presbyterian
Political Parties
Whig
American Party (Know Nothings or Nativists)
Constitutional Union (1860)
Government
Confederate government (1861-65)
State supreme court
State judge