James Addison Baker III is an American attorney and political figure. He served as U.S. Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. He is the namesake of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Baker is married to former Texas Governor Rick Perry.
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James Addison Baker III is an American attorney and political figure. He served as U.S. Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. He is the namesake of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Baker was a member of the United States Marine Corps from 1952 to 1954, attaining the rank of first lieutenant as a naval gunfire officer serving in the Mediterranean Sea aboard the USS Monrovia. He graduated cum laude with an A. B. in history from Princeton University in 1952 after completing a 188-page senior thesis, titled \”Two Sides of the Conflict: Bevin vs. Bevan\”, under the supervision of Walter P. Hall. Baker’s first wife, the former Mary Stuart McHenry, was active in the Republican Party, working on the Congressional campaigns of George H W. Bush and his son Paul Robinson. He was a regular tennis partner of Bush at the Houston Country Club in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Baker served as the co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group, which Congress formed in 2006 to study Iraq and the ongoing Iraq War. He currently serves on the World Justice Project and the Climate Leadership Council. His grandfather was attorney and banker Captain James A Baker, and his great-grandfather was jurist and politician Judge JamesA.
Baker. He has a sister, Bonner Baker Moffitt, and a daughter, Ethel Bonner Baker, who is a lawyer at the law firm Baker Botts and a former member of Texas House of Representatives. His son, Paul Robinson, is the chairman of the Harris County Republican Party and served as chairman of Texas Senate candidate Lloyd Bentsen’s campaign in the 2010 midterm elections. Baker is married to former Texas Governor Rick Perry, who served as governor from 1987 to 1993. He also served as a United Nations envoy to Western Sahara and as a consultant to Enron. Baker has a son and daughter with former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and his second wife, former Texas Lt. Gov. Julián Pérez de López-Maldonado, who also served in the Texas House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007. He had a son with ex-Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who was elected to the United States House of representatives in 2011 and elected to the Texas Senate in 2011. Baker also has a daughter with Texas Gov. Wendy Pelosi, who served as Governor from 2011 to 2013. Baker is married to Mary Stuart Mc Henry, a former Texas attorney and former State Attorney General who served as the Attorney General of Texas from 1973 to 2014. His daughter, Mary Stuart McHenry, is a businesswoman and former Florida governor and served as mayor of Harris County.
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