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October 14, 2002 Volume 27, Issue 11 |
Richard A. Baker
U.S. Senate historian Richard A. Baker will open the 2002-03 Morris W.H. "Bill" Collins Jr. Speaker Series with an Oct. 31 public address.
Baker will speak at 3 p.m. in the John Grisham Room of Mitchell Memorial Library.
Now in its third year, the series was named for the first director of the John C. Stennis Institute of Government, one of its sponsors. Other sponsors include the library's Congressional and Political Research Center and the John Stennis-G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery Association.
Baker has directed the nine-member staff of the Senate's Historical Office since its creation in 1975. In addition to his governmental duties, he has written books and numerous articles related to congressional history, including "Conservation Politics: The Senate Career of Clinton P. Anderson" and "The Senate of the United States: A Bicentennial History."
A former president of the Society for History in the Federal Government, Baker has edited collections of biographical essays on major Senate leaders and vice presidents. Before joining the Senate staff, he was a specialist in American history at the Library of Congress.
Baker holds master's degrees from Columbia and Michigan State universities, and a doctorate from the University of Maryland. He also taught courses in congressional history for Cornell University's Washington semester program and the University of Maryland.
For more information, telephone 325-0812.