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Henry E. Baker

Patent examiner

Died when: 70 years 239 days (847 months)
Star Sign: Virgo

 

Henry E. Baker

Henry Edwin Baker Jr. (September 1, 1857 – April 27, 1928) was the third African American to enter the United States Naval Academy.He later served as an assistant patent examiner in the United States Patent Office, where he would chronicle the history of African-American inventors.

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