George Baer Jr. (1763 â 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.
George Baer Jr. was born in 1763 in Frederick, Maryland. He attended common schools.
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 orphansâ 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.
Baer died in Frederick on April 3, 1834. He was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery.