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|birth_place= City missing, [[Michigan]], USA
|birth_place= City missing, [[Michigan]], USA
|religion=[[Christian]]
|religion=[[Christian]]
|office=Chairman of the [[Texas]] [[Republican Party]]
|office=Chairman of the<br> [[Texas]] [[Republican Party]]
|term_start=1997
|term_start=1997
|term_end=2003
|term_end=2003
:''No relation to the Texas [[attorney]] in the 1973 ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' [[abortion]] opinion, Sarah Weddington''
:''No relation to the Texas [[attorney]] in the 1973 ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' [[abortion]] opinion, Sarah Weddington''
'''Susan Baker Weddington''' (born April 6, 1951)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vehicle.codes/vin/susan-weddington.88448128.html|title=Susan B. Weddington|publisher=vehicle.codes|accessdate=March 19, 2015}}</ref> is a retired [[business]]woman who from 1997 to 2003 was the [[Texas]] state chairman of the [[Republican Party]] during the administrations of [[Governor]]s [[George W. Bush]] and [[Rick Perry]].
'''Susan Baker Weddington''' (born April 6, 1951)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vehicle.codes/vin/susan-weddington.88448128.html|title=Susan B. Weddington|publisher=vehicle.codes|accessdate=March 19, 2015}}</ref> is a retired [[business]]woman who from 1997 to 2003 was the [[Texas]] state chairman of the [[Republican Party]] during the administrations of [[Governor]]s [[George W. Bush]] and [[Rick Perry]].
==Background==
Born in [[Michigan]], Weddington moved to [[San Antonio]] before she was eighteen months of age and hence considers herself a native Texan.<ref name=laj/> She is one of two children of the late Louis C. Baker and the former Elaine Baird (1919-2011). She has a brother, David Baker.<ref name=mothersobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=elaine-baker&pid=155009437&fhid=8909|title=Elaine Baker obituary|publisher='The San Antonio Express-News''|date=December 12, 2011|accessdate=March 19, 2015}}</ref>Weddington graduated in 1969 from Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ahh69.com/class_classmates.cfm|title=Alamo Heights High School (Class of 1969)|publisher=ahh69.com|accessdate=March 19, 2015}}</ref> and thereafter from the private Trinity University in San Antonio, from which she received a bachelor's degree in communications and was for a time an instructor of photojournalism.<ref name=laj>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/news/080397/texas.htm|title=Texas Republicans elect state's first female party chief|author=Mary Alice Robbins|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=August 2, 1997|accessdate=March 19, 2015}}</ref>
Born in [[Michigan]], Weddington moved to [[San Antonio]] before she was eighteen months of age and hence considers herself a native Texan.<ref name=laj/> She is one of two children of the late Louis C. Baker and the former Elaine Baird (1919-2011). She has a brother, David Baker.<ref name=mothersobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=elaine-baker&pid=155009437&fhid=8909|title=Elaine Baker obituary|publisher='The San Antonio Express-News''|date=December 12, 2011|accessdate=March 19, 2015}}</ref>Weddington graduated in 1969 from Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ahh69.com/class_classmates.cfm|title=Alamo Heights High School (Class of 1969)|publisher=ahh69.com|accessdate=March 19, 2015}}</ref> and thereafter from the private Trinity University in San Antonio, from which she received a bachelor's degree in communications and was for a time an instructor of photojournalism.<ref name=laj>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/news/080397/texas.htm|title=Texas Republicans elect state's first female party chief|author=Mary Alice Robbins|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=August 2, 1997|accessdate=March 19, 2015}}</ref>