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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeBAKER, Howard Henry, Jr.
(1925—)
Senate Years of Service:
1967-1985
Party:
Republican
BAKER, 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-.
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.
Adams, Michael Fred. “A Critical Analysis of the Rhetorical Strategies of Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr., in his 1972 Campaign for Re-Election.” Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1973.
Annis, J. Lee, Jr. Howard Baker: Conciliator in an Age of Crises
. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1994.
___. “Howard H. Baker, Jr.: A Public Biography.” Ph.D. dissertation, Ball State University, 1985.
Baker, Howard. Big South Fork Country
. Photography by Howard Baker and John Netherton. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1993.
___. Howard Baker’s Washington: An Intimate Portrait of the Nation’s Capital City
. New York: W.W. Norton Co., 1982.
___. No Margin For Error: America in the Eighties
. New York: Times Books, 1980.
___. “The View From Both Ends of the Avenue.” Presidential Studies Quarterly
20 (Summer 1990): 489-92.
Myers, Stacy Colin. “Howard Baker: A Rhetoric of Leadership.” Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 1973.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Tributes to the Honorable Howard H. 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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