Howard Henry Baker,Jr. was born on November 15th 1925 in Tennessee.
At first,he wanted to be an engineer.But he became a lawyer affected by his father and his grand father who were also lawyers.
He became a Senator in 1966 as the first Republican Senator from Tennessee.
He was near to Nixon,but Baker become the deputy chairman of the Senate Select Committee investigating the Watergate scandal.
After that, he became the Republican leader in the Senate.
He aimed to be the President,but he could not become it.
He was a Senator in 3 terms and he quited it.
And he became the White House Chief of Staff.
In 2001,He became the ambassador to Japan.
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