biography
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Baker, James A(ddison), III
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| male
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| US secretary of state (1989–92), born in Houston, Texas, USA. He studied at Princeton and the University of Texas Law School, saw service in the US Marines, and became a successful corporate lawyer. He was appointed under-secretary of commerce (1975–6) in the Gerald Ford administration, and managed Ford's 1976 presidential and George Bush's 1979 Republican Party nomination campaigns. President Reagan appointed him White House chief-of-staff in 1981 and treasury secretary in 1985. After directing Bush's victorious presidential campaign in 1988, he became secretary of state in 1989, and in 1992 returned to the White House as chief-of-staff, to run Bush's re-election campaign. |
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