Bayard T. Hainer

Bayard Taylor Hainer (1860–1933) was a justice of the Territorial Oklahoma Supreme Court in 1898.

Biography Bayard Taylor Hainer was born in Columbia, Missouri on May 31, 1860. His father was Ignace Haine (Ignace was a professor of modern languages at the University of Missouri.) Bayard earned a B.S. from Iowa State College in 1884 (no major identified), and a Bachelor of Laws from University of Michigan in 1887. Admitted to the bar in Michigan in the same year, he moved to Larned, Kansas to start practicing law.

He was a lawyer, journalist and author, (He wrote one book, The Modern Law of Municipal Securities, in 1898.) On June 4, 1902, the Fourth Supreme Court District was created to include Noble, Kay and Pawnee Counties, with the district court at Pawhuska, Osage Nation. Judge Hainer was assigned to this District. He was still on the Territorial Court on November 16, 1907, when the Oklahoma Territorial government expired and was immediately replaced by the state of Oklahoma.