Dr. Baganz was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, earned his B.S. from Indiana University in 1928 and earned his medical degree from Indiana University Medical School in 1930 and entered general practice the next year in Uniondale, Indiana. In 1946, he served as chief of neurology and psychiatry services at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Topeka, Kansas and was a visiting professor at the Menninger Foundation.
In 1947, he was director of special education at the V.A. Hospital in North Little Rock, Arkansas and at the same time headed the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas. He was a leading figure in the training of medical administrators for psychiatric hospitals and was manager of Veterans Administration Lyons Hospital, New Jersey. In 1948, he worked as a psychiatrist and manager of the U.S. Veterans Hospital at Lyons, New Jersey. Dr. Baganz served as the Speaker of the Assembly from 1954-1955.
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