Background
Baker was born Nov. 15, 1925, in Huntsville, Tennessee. He had grown up in a political home - his father and stepmother were both Republican representatives in Congress.
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In 1974, Congress set aside 100,000 acres on the Tennessee-Kentucky border as the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Gorges hundreds of feet deep have earned the area the nickname of "Yosemite of the East." Natural arches, blue heron, tulip poplars, white-tailed deer, wild hogs, and eight varieties of bass can all be found in Big South Fork country. One of the area's most famous residents is Senator Howard Baker, politician and photographer. In this book, he and nature photographer John Netherton combine their love of Big South Fork country with their photographic skills to produce a beautiful book that celebrates the natural beauty of the area. In ten interviews, those who live in the area tell about catching moonshiners, a mysterious light, harvesting ginseng, and more. Big South Fork country is an area of rare beauty; a wilderness undisturbed by civilization, even though 150 million Americans live within a day's drive. As Howard Baker says, "Because the Big South Fork is a new federal reserve, only 800,000 visitors came to see us in 1992, compared with 8 million who journeyed to the Great Smokies two hours south of here. We think we can accommodate a few more than 800,000, but frankly we don't want 8 million people a year tramping around in our mountains. We're going to share the secret of the Cumberlands with you, but we would prefer you didn't mention it to anyone else."
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Baker was born Nov. 15, 1925, in Huntsville, Tennessee. He had grown up in a political home - his father and stepmother were both Republican representatives in Congress.
Baker attended The McCallie School in Chattanooga, and after graduating, he attended Tulane University in New Orleans. During World War II, he trained at a U. S. Navy facility on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, in the V-12 Navy College Training Program. He served in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 and graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1949. The same year, he was admitted to the Tennessee bar and began his law practice.
In 1964 Baker ran for the Senate and lost. He tried again in 1966 and won, becoming the first Republican ever popularly elected to the Senate from Tennessee. He was reelected in 1972 and 1978. In 1973 Baker gained national exposure as vice chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee. This gave him hope of becoming President Gerald Ford's running mate in 1976, but he was passed over. In 1977 Baker was elected Senate Republican leader. In 1980 he sought the Republican presidential nomination. The Republican Party was then dominated by conservatives, however, and Baker found little support. After running poorly in four primaries, he withdrew his candidacy. He became Senate majority leader in 1981 and served until he retired from the Senate in 1985. From the beginning of his career, Baker showed a willingness to compromise and seldom took extreme positions. In his first Senate race, in 1964, Baker did not campaign against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, though his Democratic opponent had voted for it.
Baker died on June 26, 2014, at the age of 88 from complications of a stroke he suffered the week prior.
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As a senator, Baker supported the Panama Canal treaties. He was a moderate on environmental issues. He was generally pro-Pentagon - he supported the Vietnam War but, as one of the Senate's less strident hawks, he sometimes gave at least lukewarm support to arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union.
He was married to the daughters of two prominent Republicans. Baker's first wife, Joy, who died of cancer, was the daughter of former Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. In 1996, he married former U. S. Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, daughter of the late Kansas Governor Alfred Landon, who was the Republican nominee for President in 1936.