Background
Baker,, Richard Wheeler was born on May 13, 1916 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Richard Wheeler and Doris (Newberry) Baker.
Baker,, Richard Wheeler was born on May 13, 1916 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Richard Wheeler and Doris (Newberry) Baker.
Graduate, Groton School, 1934. Bachelor summa cum laude, Yale University, 1938. Graduate, Advanced Management Program, Harvard, 1957.
Teacher St. Paul's School, 1939-1941. Assistant to personnel director Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, 1946-1949. General assistant Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (investments), 1949-1954.
Administrative assistant New York Life Insurance Company, 1954-1955, executive assistant, 1955-1956, assistant vice president, 1956-1958, Second vice president, 1958-1961, vice president real estate, 1961-1969. Senior vice president finance, director Property Development Group, Inc., Ann Arbor, 1969-1973. Trustee Brooklyn Savings Bank (now Crossland Savings), 1962-1988, board consultant, 1988-1991.
Chairman First Pennsylvania Mortgage Trust, 1974-1981. Executive trustee Institutional Investors Trust, 1970-1983.
Vice chairman Stony Brook district committee Boy Scouts American, 1959-1961. Member Presidential Task Force on Low Income Housing, 1969. President Princeton chapter American Field Service, 1972-1973, treasurer, 1973-1988.
President Princeton Battlefield Area Preservation Society, 1975-1996. Member Yale Division School Associates, 1980-1983. Member Republican County Committee, Princeton Township, 1953-1959, captain, 1960-1962.
President Princeton Young Republican Club, 1954-1956, Princeton Republican Club, 1956-1959, 73-75. Chairman citizen's advisory committee Princeton Township Plan Board, 1958-1960. Member Princeton Borough Republican Committee, 1974-1981.
Chairman board trustees Princeton Country Day School, 1958-1962. Vice chairman Princeton Day School, 1962-1963. Trustee Princeton Hospital, 1964-1972.
Board directors Yale Alumni Fund, 1968-1973. Lieutenant Commander United States Naval Reserve, 1941-1946, captain Reserve. Member Life Insurance Association American, American Life Convention (chairman joint sub-coms. housing and mortgage lending policy of both 1965-1968), Mortgage Bankers Association (vice chairman research committee 1964-1967), English Speaking Union (board directors Princeton branch 1974-1983, president 1979-1981, executive director 1981-1983, treasurer 1988-1994), Archaeol.
Institute American (treasurer 1980-1983, trustee emeritus since 1993), History Society Princeton (board directors 1977-1980), Rockingham Association (trustee 1984-1992, treasurer 1988-1992), Berzelius, Elizabethan Club, Pretty Brook Club, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Rachel Irvin Cooper, December 23, 1940. Children– Eileen Elizabeth (now Lady Strathnaver), Richard Wheeler III, John Cooper.
