Baker is senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts and honorary chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. In 2006, Baker and Lee H. Hamilton, former congressman and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, served as co-chairmen of the 10-member bipartisan Iraq Study Group, which was organized to independently assess the situation in Iraq and its effect on the surrounding regions as well as U.S. interests.
Baker has served in senior government positions for three U.S. presidents. He was the 61st secretary of state from January 1989 through August 1992, under George H. W. Bush. During his tenure at the State Department, Baker traveled to 90 foreign countries as the United States confronted the unprecedented challenges and opportunities of the post-Cold War era. In 1995, Baker published "The Politics of Diplomacy," his reflections on those years of revolution, war and peace.
Baker served as 67th secretary of the treasury from 1985 to 1988, under Ronald Reagan. As treasury secretary, he was also chairman of the President’s Economic Policy Council. From 1981 to 1985, Baker served as White House chief of staff to Reagan. Baker’s record of public service began in 1975 as under secretary of commerce to Gerald Ford. It concluded with his service as White House chief of staff and senior counselor to Bush from August 1992 to January 1993. Long active in American presidential politics, Baker led presidential campaigns for Ford, Reagan and Bush over the course of five consecutive presidential elections from 1976 to 1992.
A native of Houston, Baker graduated from Princeton University in 1952. After two years of active duty as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, he en ...More...
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