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John M. Baer Papers, 1916-1923, 1940, 1969, undated
Collection Overview
Title: John M. Baer Papers, 1916-1923, 1940, 1969, undated
ID: OGLMC719
Primary Creator: Baer, John Miller (1886-1970)
Extent: 1.75 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 00/00/1981. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Politics and Government - Cartoons, Politics and Government - Nonpartisan League (NPL), Politics and Government - United States House of Representatives
Languages: English
Abstract
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Collection Historical Note
John Miller Baer was born March 29, 1886, on a farm in Blackcreek, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, to Captain John M. Baer, author, and poetess Libbie C. (Riley) Baer. Baer attended Lawrence University, in Appleton, Wis., and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1909.
Shortly after, Baer moved to Beach, North Dakota. There he married Estella G. Kennedy, on December 28, 1910. They had two sons. While in Beach, he was engaged as a civil engineer and in agricultural pursuits, was appointed postmaster, and among other duties, managed and farmed 5,000 acres. He furnished cartoons and articles to newspapers, like Labor, from 1909 to 1917.
John Miller Baer was the first Representative elected to Congress that received the endorsement of the National Nonpartisan League. In 1915 Baer was elected as Republican of the 1st District of North Dakota to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy of Henry T. Helgesen. Baer was reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress on the Nonpartisan ticket, receiving a majority of 3,017, and served from July 10, 1917 to March 3, 1921. While in the Sixty-sixth Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture.
Baer was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-seventh Congress in 1920. Instead, he resumed his previous activities as a cartoonist and journalist for Labor. John M. Baer died February 18, 1970, in Washington, DC. He is buried in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Subject/Index Terms
Politics and Government - Cartoons
Politics and Government - Nonpartisan League (NPL)
Politics and Government - United States House of Representatives
Administrative Information
Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections
Additional materials were received from:
Robert Wilkins, Grand Forks, North Dakota, February 7, 1983; 83-1069
Art Wood, Washington, D. C., December 5, 1986; 86-1490
Copied from issues of the Minnesota Leader; 87- 1577
Jerry L. Wallace; 2015-3304
Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Method: The materials were originally part of the North Dakota Biographical File; 81-903
Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). John M. Baer Papers. OGLMC 719, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid added to Archon in December 2013.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Folder 1: Newspaper Clippings
- Item 1: "John M. Baer, Once N.D. Congressman, Still Active at 83" by Jack Hagerty, Grand Forks Herald, October 8, 1969
- Item 2: "Caricaturist Who Cartooned Self Into Congress and Then Out Again Still Powerful Figure at Capital" by Charles Stewart. Undated
- Item 3: Cartoon: "The Man Who Monopolizes the Bridge", undated
- Folder 2: Fifteen political cartoons from the early Nonpartisan years (1916-1920), as well as two pictures of Baer
- Some of the cartoons are identified as being from the Nonpartisan Leader, although most are unidentified. The cartoons were reproduced on photograph paper.
- Folder 3: Photocopied political cartoons from Minnesota Leader : 1918
- Item 1: "This Crime Must Not be Committed", February 16, 1918
- Item 2: "Why Not Watch the Bunghole?", March 2, 1918
- Item 3: "A Scarecrow That Scares Nobody", March 9, 1918
- Item 4: "How the Plot Started", March 9, 1918
- Item 5: "Two Important Announcements", April 20, 1918
- Item 6: "When the Crowd Pushes Together the Load Moves", May 25, 1918
- Item 7: "Cooking Up Another Mess", August 24, 1918
- Item 8: "'Class Against Class;' Who Divides Them?", September 14, 1918
- Item 9: "Holding Up the Reconstruction Coach", November 30, 1918
- Folder 4: Photocopied political cartoons from Minnesota Leader : 1919
- Item 1: "Time to Cut it Down", February 22, 1919
- Item 2: "How They Vote", March 15, 1919
- Item 3: "New View of the Farmer", May 10, 1919
- Item 4: "Ready for Action", May 24, 1919
- Item 5: "After the Leader's Exposure", June 7, 1919
- Item 6: "Keeping the Issue Clear", June 14, 1919
- Item 7: "Slave Market of Babylon", June 21, 1919
- Item 8: "Sheathing the Sword", June 28, 1919
- Item 9: "Equal Opportunities", August 9, 1919
- Item 10: "Welcome Home", October 14, 1919
- Item 11: "Blindfolding the Victim", November 8, 1919
- Item 12: "The Scandinavian American", November 8, 1919
- Item 13: "Hopeless", November 15, 1919
- Item 14: "Proving His 'Friendship'", December 6, 1919
- Folder 5: Photocopied political cartoons from Minnesota Leader : 1920
- Item 1: "Pulling Out a Tooth", April 24, 1920
- Item 2: "The Original Organized 'Class Movement'", May 29, 1920
- Item 3: "Keep the Prices Soaring", June 5, 1920
- Item 4: "Elect Men Who Can Resist This", June 19, 1920
- Item 5: "Close the Gate", August 24, 1920
- Item 6: "The Wrestlers", October 16, 1920
- Item 7: "Licked? Not Yet!", December 4, 1920
- Item 8: "Co-Operation in Wisconsin", December 4, 1920
- Item 9: "Why is the Wolf Interested?", December 18, 1920
- Item 10: "A Burning at the Stake in Minnesota", December 18, 1920
- Folder 6: Photocopied political cartoons from Minnesota Leader : 1921
- Item 1: "The Next Logical Step", January 1, 1921
- Item 2: "Camouflage", January 15, 1921
- Item 3: "Not Till You Clean It Out!", January 20, 1921
- Item 4: "Curses!", January 21, 1921
- Item 5: "Sympathetic", January 29, 1921
- Item 6: "Not Much Incentive", February 26, 1921
- Item 7: "Then and Now", March 12, 1921
- Item 8: "Sick - From His Own Pipe!", March 26, 1921
- Item 9: "Buried Treasure", April 23, 1921
- Item 10: "Punctured!", May 21, 1921
- Item 11: "Why You Should Buy", June 4, 1921
- Item 12: "Farmer and Laborer Use Their Own Money Now", June 18, 1921
- Item 13: "Busy Bees Gather Honey - Drone Eats it Busily", July 30, 1921
- Item 14: "Up Ye Leaguers and At 'Em", August 13, 1921
- Item 15: "The Dollar Shrinks to Four Bits", August 21, 1921
- Folder 7: Photocopied political cartoons from Minnesota Leader : 1922-1923
- Item 1: "A Worried Patient", January 28, 1922
- Item 2: "The Kellogg Vaudeville", March 25, 1922
- Item 3: "'Radio' May Lead to This", May 6, 1922
- Item 4: "Minnesota the Next in Line", October 30, 1922
- Item 5: "Shipstead is a Lincoln American", October 30, 1922
- Item 6: "Johnson Needed at the Gate", July 14, 1923
- Folder 8: Original, hand-drawn cartoons
- Item 1: Regarding the Nonpartisan Platform and Senator Frazier, undated
- Item 2: "Lemke is Always Right!", 1940
- Item 3: Regarding the Resignation of Senator Vare
- Item 4: "Trying to Make a Jackass of Congress," Regarding the Frazier-Lemke Petition, drawn for the Farmer's Union
- Item 5: "He Will See It Yet," Regarding Farm Board "Triple A" Parity Prices
- Item 6: "New South," Regarding the Southern Labor Conference Program, drawn for Labor
- Item 7: "Isn't That a Bright Idea?" Regarding GOP Chairman Lucas, drawn for Labor
- Item 8: "Over There and Over Here," Regarding the Perception of Peace and Safety in the United States vs. Europe, Drawn for Labor
- Item 9: "The Deflation of the Old Guard (One of Mellon Art Treasures)," Regarding the Old Guard of the GOP, Presented as a Crippled Person, Drawn for Labor
- Item 10: "The Big Squeeze!" Regarding the Consumer Being Squeezed by Rent and Food Profiteers, Drawn for Labor
- Item 11: "A Difficult Stunt," Regarding the Head of the Family Attempting to Survive Between Two Forces, a Rent Boost and an Increase in the Cost of Living, Drawn for Labor
- Item 12: "Not Where He Should Be! Where He Should Be!" Regarding "The Way It Is," Views of Two Possible Treatments of Black Marketers in the United States, Life in Prison, or Life in a Mansion, Drawn for Labor
- Item 13: "His First Obligation! His Place Here!" Regarding Congress' Job to Combat Unemployment and Meet Preparedness, Rather Than Worrying About Re- election. Drawn for Labor
- Item 14: "Where the Shoe Pinches!" Regarding the Problem of Low Wages and the Road to Recovery and Better Times. Drawn for Labor
- Folder 9: Coolidge hobby horse cartoon from Labor (Washington, DC), 21 February 1925
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