Howard Henry Baker, Jr. (b. 1925)

Biography

Baker was the first popularly elected Republican senator from the state of Tennessee. He was born in Hamilton, Tennessee, and earned his LL.B. from the University of Tennessee in 1925. He was an U.S. senator from 1967-1985, during which time he served as Vice Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, Minority Leader (1977-1981), and Majority Leader (1981-85). He was the White House Chief of Staff from 1987-88 and is now the U.S. Ambassador to Japan.

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

• No Margin for Error: America in the Eighties (1980)
• Howard Baker's Washington: An Intimate Portrait of the Nation's Capital City (1982)
• Big South Fork Country (1993)
• Leading the United States Senate (contributor, 1998)
• Scott's Gulf: The Bridgestone/Firestone Centennial Wilderness (with John Netherton, 2000)

Sources and Links

• Long bio
• Article on Japan post
• Washington Post bio
• Baker's photography

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