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Thomas

Stockham Baker (March

28, 1871 – April 7, 1939) was an American scholar and educator who served as the

second President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Thomas Stockham Baker was born in Aberdeen, Maryland on

March 28, 1871 to Cornelia E. (née Stockham) and John H. Baker. He attended

public schools in Baltimore County. He

studied at Johns Hopkins University,

graduating in 1891 with a Bachelor of Arts. He did graduate work at the University of Leipzig in Germany, then returned to Baltimore to complete his Ph.D. at

Johns Hopkins in 1895.[1] His thesis was titled America as the

Poetical Utopia of Lenau and the Politico-Literary Ideal of Kürnberger and

Young Germany. He became a police reporter for the Baltimore News and

then a music critic for the Baltimore Sun. In 1895, he became an associate professor

of German at Johns Hopkins. From 1900 to 1908, he taught German language and

literature at Johns Hopkins. He joined the faculty of the Jacob Tome Institute, a prep school for boys in Port Deposit, Maryland, as

a teacher of German in 1900. He became the director of the Institute in 1909. He

remained at the Tome Institute until 1919. He moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in

1919 to become secretary at Carnegie Institute of Technology (later

Carnegie Mellon University). When Tech's first president, Arthur Hamerschlag,

resigned in 1922, Baker became the second president. Baker's administration

worked to lift Tech out of its "construction phase" under President

Hamerschlag, focusing on deepening the school's academic offerings, research,

and beautifying the campus.[ His leadership saw the introduction of

the Carnegie Library School (later named the Graduate School of Library and

Information Sciences), increased evening student enrollment, the Coal Research

Laboratory, and the Metals Research Laboratory. Football was prominent

during the Baker years, with Tech defeating the University of Pittsburgh and

the University of Notre Dame on

many occasions, and falling short of the national championship in 1928 by just

one game.[ Baker resigned from Carnegie Tech on September 17,

1935, and was appointed president emeritus and to the board. Baker gained a

reputation at Carnegie Mellon as an expert on coal production and research. In 1926, 1928, and 1931, he

held international conferences on coal production in Pittsburgh. In 1934, Baker

served as vice president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also

served as a member of the water resources committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Baker

Hall, home of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences is

named after Thomas Baker.[ He was given a LL.D. honorary degree from the University of Delaware,

a Sc.D. honorary degree

from Duquesne University and

a Sc.D. honorary degree from Lafayette College.