Baker, Howard H. (Howard Henry), 1902-1964

LC control no.	no2010128220
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Baker, Howard H. (Howard Henry), 1902-1964 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	19020112
Death date	19640107
Place of birth	Somerset (Ky.)
Place of death	Knoxville (Tenn.)
Affiliation	University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus) University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus). College of Law Tennessee. General Assembly. House of Representatives United States. Congress. House Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Profession or occupation	Legislators
Found in	Agreement on the Organization for Trade Cooperation, 1956: p. 55 (Howard H. Baker) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed Aug. 6, 2010 (Baker, Howard Henry, (husband of Irene Bailey Baker and father of Howard Henry Baker, Jr.), a Representative from Tenn.; b. Jan. 12, 1902; d. Jan. 7, 1964) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, October 23, 2013 (Baker, Howard Henry, (husband of Irene Bailey Baker and father of Howard Henry Baker, Jr.), a Representative from Tennessee; born in Somerset, Pulaski County, Ky., January 12, 1902; moved with his parents to Huntsville, Scott County, Tenn.; attended the public schools of Scott and Knox Counties, Tenn.; was graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1922 and from its law school in 1924; was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1923 and commenced the practice of law in Huntsville, Tenn.; publisher of a weekly newspaper in Huntsville, Tenn.; served in the Tennessee house of representatives in 1929 and 1930; member of Scott County Board of Education in 1931 and 1932; attorney general of the nineteenth judicial circuit of Tennessee 1934-1948; vice president and general counsel of the Oneida & Western Railroad Co., in 1945; member of the board of directors, First National Bank of Oneida, Tenn.; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor in 1938 and for United States Senator in 1940; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1940, 1948, 1952, and 1956; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1951, until his death in Knoxville, Tenn., January 7, 1964; interment in Sherwood Memorial Gardens)
Associated language	eng