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Show CANDIATE FOR DISTRICT JUDGE I i i Attorney Lee L. Baker Is Democratic Nominee for Fourth District Judge. i V J l J I ' I mi Ml - ' u . N. N X 1 LEE L. BAKER. In company with Mr. Dern, Mr. Funk and Mr. Robinson, was Leo L. linker, one of the Democratic candidates for judge of the Fourth judicial district. Mr. Baker has been a resident of Provo for the past ten years, being engaged in the practice of law there as senior member mem-ber of the firm of Baker & Baker, which firm is well known to many residents of Springville and vicinity. He was raised on a homestead, in Nebraska, his father having been a pioneer there and he attended the Nebraska Central college, a Quaker denominational school, after completing com-pleting his course in the common scho d s. In 1 000 he mo ved t o Michigan and learned stenography in a commercial school and by men n s of which occupa t i n n he worked his way through the Detroit College of Law and was admitted to the bar.' Mr... Baker states that this is the first time he has ever been nominated nom-inated for office. He has. however, been active in party work, having served as chairman of the Fourth judicial district committee for the past four years and his wife was chosen as one of the alternates to the Democratic national convention ni New York last July and was present throughout that convention. Mr. Baker has been a member of the American Bar association for a number of years and was the representative of the Utah State Bar association at the meeting of the American Bar held in Philadelphia Phila-delphia last, summer. At these yearly year-ly conventions Mr. Baker has become be-come slightly acquainted with the Democratic nominee for president, John W. Davis, and has a strong personal friendship and liking for Mr. Davis as a man and admiration for him as a statesman. |