LaMar Baker

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LaMar Baker

LaMar Baker (born December 29, 1915 in Chattanooga , Tennessee , †  June 20, 2003 in Nashville , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1971 and 1975 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

LaMar Baker attended the public schools in his home country and then from 1936 to 1938 David Lipscomb College in Nashville. He then graduated from Harding College in Searcy ( Arkansas ) until 1940 . During World War II , Baker served in the Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1946 . After the war he was a private businessman. Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . In 1967 and 1968 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee ; then he was a member of the State Senate until 1970 . Between 1964 and 1972 he was a delegate to the regional Republican party conventions in Tennessee. In 1972 he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach , where President Richard Nixon was nominated for re-election.

In the 1970 congressional election , Baker was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Bill Brock, who moved to the Senate , on January 3, 1971 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1975 . During this time the Vietnam War ended . In 1974 the Watergate Affair rocked political life in the United States. This scandal especially harmed the Republican Party and its candidates at all political levels. LaMar Baker was also affected in the 1974 congressional election . He was defeated by the Democrat Marilyn Lloyd .

In 1976, Baker competed unsuccessfully to return to Congress. Between 1981 and 1985 he was the regional representative of the Federal Ministry of Transport . After that, he retired. LaMar Baker died in Nashville on June 20, 2003.

Web links

  • LaMar Baker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Baker, LaMar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Chattanooga , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 2003
Place of death Nashville , Tennessee