- Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee, 3 January 1967 - 3 January 1985; did not seek reelection to a fourth term in 1984.
- His first wife, Joy, who died in 1993, after a long battle with cancer, was the daughter of Senator Everett Dirksen. His second wife, Nancy Kassebaum Baker (formerly a fellow senator, from Kansas, who served using the name Nancy Landon Kassebaum), whose father, Alfred Landon, was Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937, and the 1936 Republican nominee for President of the United States.
- Stepfather of Richard Kassebaum and Bill Kassebaum.
- Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 26 March 1984.
- U.S. ambassador to Japan, 2001-2005.
- Inducted into the Photo Marketing Association Hall of Fame in 1994.
- The Howard H. Baker Highway in Scott County, Tennessee, USA was named in his honor.
- Was awarded the Order of the Paulownia Flowers in 2008 by H.I.M. Akihito, the Emperor of Japan, in recognition of his term as United States Ambassador to Japan.
- Was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan.
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