[1][2] He attended the Maryland Agricultural College, but left school after his father died from an accident at the cannery.
[3] He led a reform drive to modernize the police department, fire, sewage, garbage disposal, and purchasing operations in the county.
[1][2] After his tenure in Congress, he resumed agricultural pursuits, and was again elected to the board of county commissioners in 1950 and was serving as chairman at the time of death.
[1][3] Baldwin married Mary Virginia Smith of Sunnybrook, Maryland in 1916.
[1][2] Together, they had four sons and one daughter:[1] Baldwin suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage on October 9, 1952, at his home in Hydes.