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Senate Years of Service: 1967-1985 Party: Republican
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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,
2001-2005.
BibliographyAnnis, 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.
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