Grafton Baker

Grafton Baker (c. 1806 – October 1881) was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of the New Mexico Territory, serving from 1851 to 1853.

Born in Tennessee, Baker moved to Natchez, Mississippi in his young adulthood, representing Jackson County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Legislature in 1848 and 1849.

In 1851, President Millard Fillmore appointed Baker to be the first regular chief justice of the Supreme Court of the New Mexico Territory. The Weekly Mississippian observed that "Baker, in the canvass of 1848-9, contended, on the stump, that the lex loci of our Mexican territory would prevail, despite the Constitution; and we have no doubt his appointment was made with that view of tho question".

Baker died in Washington County, Missouri, at the age of 75. At the time, he was described as "the oldest practitioner in the Mississippi Bar".