Charles Duane Baker

Background

Baker was born in New New York He was the son of Charles D. Baker, Junior. (?–1971), a prominent Republican politician from Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Eleanor (Little) Baker.

Education

Harvard University.

Career

He served in several departmental roles in the Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan administrations, including Under Secretary of Health and Human Services (1984–1985). He is a resident of Needham, Massachusetts, and is the father of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker

The young Baker had two sisters, Caroline R. Baker and Nancy B. Kobick. He attended Baldwin High School in Baldwin, New York, and graduated in 1945.

He went on to attend Harvard College, and graduated in 1951 with an Bachelor of Arts He spent 1946 to 1948 in the United States Navy in aviation, and returned from 1951 to 1953.

He then returned to Harvard, receiving an Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1955. They moved to Elmira, New York, where he became a buyer for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

They had three sons, Charles Duane IV, Jonathan, and Alex. While at Westinghouse he moved to New Jersey in 1957.

Baker moved back to Massachusetts to serve as vice president of United Research, an economic research firm, from 1961 to 1965.

In 1965 Baker became vice president of Harbridge House, a management consulting firm, part of whose client base included the United States Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of Transportation. He was United States Deputy Under Secretary of Transportation (1969), Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Policy and International Affairs (1970–1971), and Under Secretary of Health and Human Services (1984–1985). In 1985 he became a professor at the Northeastern University College of Business Administration.

Achievements

• In the Navy he achieved the rank of lieutenant (junior grade).

Connections

Father:

Charles Duane Baker

Mother:

Eleanor (Little) Baker

Spouse:

Alice Elizabeth Ghormley

child:

Alexander K. Baker

child:

Charles D. Baker

child:

Jonathan G. Baker