Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Howard Baker, Jr. is the United States ambassador to Japan. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001. Baker, a Republican from Tennessee, was formerly a US Senator. Baker served in the US Senate from 1967-85, with two terms as minority leader (1977-81) and two terms as majority leader (1981-85). He served as Chief of Staff in the administration of President Ronald Reagan (1987-1989). Since 1996 Baker has been married to former US Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum. External link Congressional Biography Further reading 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. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.