| Hugh Potter Baker | |
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| Hugh P. Baker c. 1938 | |
| President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts Amherst) | |
| In office 1933–1947 |
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| Born | May 20, 1839 St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin |
| Died | May 24, 1950 (aged 72) Orlando, Florida |
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Hugh Potter Baker (January 20, 1878 – May 24, 1950)[1] was a graduate of the Michigan State College of Agriculture; Yale's School of Forestry (M.F., 1904); and the University of Munich (Ph.D., Economics, 1910). He was the second and fourth Dean of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, from 1912–20 and 1930–33.
Baker previously had worked with Gifford Pinchot at the United States Bureau of Forestry and Forest Service (1901–04). Immediately before coming to Syracuse, Baker was Professor of Forestry at the Pennsylvania State College.[2]
After his second stint as Dean of the College of Forestry, Baker went on to become President of the University of Massachusetts (1933–47).