| Howard Baker  AKA Howard Henry Baker, Jr.
Born: 15-Nov-1925
Birthplace: Huntsville, TN
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government
Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Reagan's Chief of Staff, 1987-88 Military service: US Navy (1943-46) Father: Howard Henry Baker (US Congressman, d. 1965)
Mother: Dora Ladd Baker (d.)
Mother: Irene Bailey (stepmother)
Sister: (younger)
Wife: Joy Dirksen (dau. of Everett Dirksen, m. Dec-1951, d. 1993 cancer, one son, one daughter)
Son: Darek Dirksen Baker (b. 1953)
Daughter: Cynthia Baker (b. 1956)
Wife: Nancy Kassebaum (US Senator, b. 1932, m. 7-Dec-2001)
High School: McCallie School, Chattanooga, TN (1943)
University: Tulane University
University: University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Law School: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (1949)
US Ambassador to Japan (2001-05)
White House Chief of Staff (1987-89 under Ronald Reagan)
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1986-87)
US Senator, Tennessee (1967-85)
Member of the Board of FedEx (c. 1996)
4-H Club
Alfalfa Club President, 1973
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Common Good Advisory Board
Council of American Ambassadors
Council on Foreign Relations
Elizabeth Dole for President
Freedom Forum Secretary, Board of Trustees
George W. Bush for President
IFES Board of Directors
McCain 2000
Partnership for a Secure America Advisory Board
Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity
Alfalfa Party candidate for US President
Presidential Medal of Freedom 26-Mar-1984
Secret Service Codename Snapshot
Watergate Scandal
Is the subject of books:
Howard Baker, Conciliator in an Age of Crisis, 1994, BY: James Annis
Author of books:
No Margin for Error (1980)
Howard Baker's Washington (1982)
Big South Fork Country (1993)
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