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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeHoward Henry BAKER, Jr.
(1925- )
Senate Years of Service:
1967-1985Party: RepublicanBAKER, Howard Henry, Jr.,
(son of Howard Henry Baker, stepson of Irene Bailey Baker,
son-in-law of Everett Dirksen, and husband of Nancy Landon
Kassebaum), a Senator from Tennessee; born in Huntsville, Scott
County, Tenn., November 15, 1925; attended Tulane University, New
Orleans, La., and University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.;
graduated from the University of Tennessee Law College 1949; served
in the United States Navy 1943-1946; admitted to the Tennessee bar
in 1949 and commenced practice; unsuccessful candidate for election
to the U.S. Senate in 1964; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate in 1966; reelected in 1972 and again in 1978, and
served from January 3, 1967, to January 3, 1985; did not seek
reelection; minority leader 1977-1981; majority leader 1981-1985;
unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for President
of the United States in 1980; lawyer in Washington, D.C.; awarded
the Presidential Medal of Freedom on March 26, 1984; chief of staff
to President Ronald Reagan 1987-1988; U.S. Ambassador to Japan,
2001-2005.
Bibliography
Annis, James. Howard Baker: Conciliator in an Age of Crises.
Lanham, Md.: Madison Books, 1994; U.S. Congress. Senate.
Tributes to the Honorable Howard Baker, Jr., of Tennessee in the
United States Senate, Upon the Occasion of His Retirement from the
Senate. 98th Cong., 2d sess., 1984. Washington: Government
Printing Office, 1984.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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