George Washington Baines Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Political and social views== Baines was a member of the Democratic Party when he was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives between 1842 and 1843. He introduced resolutions asking the [[United States Congress]] to turn over "refuse lands" and worked to adopt the paper ballot and end voice voting.<ref name=Ark/> ===Slavery=== George Washington Baines was an owner of slaves, along with the other three founders of Baylor University. In the [[1850 United States census|1850 census]], Baines is recorded as the owner of two slaves when he was the pastor of a church in Huntsville. In the [[1860 United States census|1860 census]], when he was a pastor in Anderson at the time, Baines is recorded as the owner of eight slaves.<ref name=BU/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page