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'''Howard Henry Baker, Jr.''' (born November 15, 1925) is the former Majority Leader of the [[United States Senate]] and a member of the [[Republican Party]]. He also served a chief of staff to [[President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1987 through 1988 and U.S. Ambassador to [[Japan]] from 2001 to 2005.

'''Howard Henry Baker, Jr.''' (November 15, 1925 – June 26, 2014), is the former Majority Leader of the [[United States Senate]] and a member of the [[Republican Party]]. He was the chief of staff to [[U.S. President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1987 through 1988 though the two had run against each other for the Republican presiden tial nomination in 1980. Baker was also the U.S. Ambassador to [[Japan]] from 2001 to 2005.

 

Baker was a son-in-law of former Republican Senate Leader [[Everett Dirksen]] of [[Illinois]]. After his first wife, Joy Dirksen, died in 1993, he wed in 1996 a former senatorial colleague, [[Nancy Landon Kassebaum]] of [[Kansas]]. His daughter, Cissy Baker, was an unsuccessful congressional candidate in their native [[Tennessee]].

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