Percival Gilmore Baldwin (December 15, 1880 – December 26, 1936) was born in

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. He then moved to United States with his parents in 1882 and settled in

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. He studied at the Montpelier Seminary in

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and at the John Marshall Law School in

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. Baldwin moved to Chicago in 1900 and was a real estate broker and contractor. Baldwin served in the

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from 1915 to 1919 and was a Republican. He also served as a delegate in the Fifth Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1920. Baldwin died from injuries at the Cook County Hospital after being struck by an automobile.

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