Howard Baker - Personal Life

Personal Life

Baker has been married to the daughters of two prominent Republicans. Baker's late 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, the daughter of the late Kansas Governor Alfred M. Landon, who was the Republican nominee for President in 1936. Howard Baker is a Presbyterian. He is the uncle to M. Blake Morrow one of the youngest graduates of the University of Tennessee College of Law

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