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William Baker (baseball)
William Frazer Baker (1866 – December 4, 1930) was the owner of the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League from through and New York City Police Commissioner from 1909-1910. Early life Baker was born in Pittsburgh in 1866. After leaving school he went to work for the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad as a messenger boy. In 1885 he moved to Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where he worked as a secretary to industrialist William P. Shinn, worked in the railroad and oil businesses, and was in the contracting business with his brother, and was a clerk for the W. N. Coler & Co. banking house. Government service In 1898, Baker was hired as a secretary to New York City Comptroller Bird Sim Coler. Baker was active in Coler's 1902 gubernatorial campaign. Following Coler's loss, Baker went to work on Wall Street. In 1905, Baker returned to government service as a member of the New York City Civil Service Commission. He was made president of the board the following year. In 1908, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Com'r Baker LCCN2014683705
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence. The term is most commonly associated with the police forces of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from the military and other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie are military units charged with civil policing. Police forces are usually public sector services, funded through taxes. Law enforcement is only part of policing activity. Policing has included an array of activities in different situations, but the predominant ones are concerned with the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
