Newton Diehl Baker Jr. was an American lawyer, Georgist, politician, and government official. He served as the 37th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1912 to 1915. As U.S. Secretary of War from 1916 to 19
Baker c. 1910s
Baker in 1918 as Secretary of War
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker (right), Major General Andre Brewster (left) and Major General James W. McAndrew (center) with a group of German prisoners who have just arrived from the front, September 26, 1918.
The Army Distinguished Service Medal presented by Secretary of War Newton D. Baker to several American generals for service in the world war, January 22, 1919. General Peyton C. March, the Army Chief of Staff (far left), is wearing his Army DSM, with Secretary Baker and Assistant Secretary Benedict Crowell to his left.
Georgism, in modern times also called Geoism, and known historically as the single tax movement, is an economic ideology holding that persons should own the value that they produce themselves, while t
Newton D. Baker
…Newton Diehl Baker Jr. (December 3, 1871 – December 25, 1937) was an American lawyer, Georgist, politician, and government official. He served as the 37th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1912 to 1915. As U.S. Secretary of War from 1916 to 1921…
Georgist single tax poster published in The Public, a Chicago newspaper (c. 1910–1914)
Henry George, whose writings and advocacy form the basis for Georgism
1914 billboard citing Henry George in Rockford, Illinois
Henry George School of Social Science in New York City