Baker, Richard A(llan)
BAKER, Richard A(llan)
BAKER, Richard A(llan). American, b. 1940. Genres: Politics/Government, History, Biography. Career: Holy Apostles College, Cromwell, CT, assistant professor of history, 1965-67; Library of Congress, Washington, DC, specialist in American history for Legislative Reference Service, 1968-69; U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, acting curator, 1969-70; Government Research Corp., Washington, DC, director of research, 1970-75; U.S. Senate, director of Historical Office, 1975-. University of Maryland at College Park, adjunct instructor, 1983-84; University of Texas at Arlington, Walter Prescott Webb Lecturer, 1984; Cornell University, adjunct professor in Cornell in Washington Program, 1987-90, 1992. Publications: The United States Senate: A Historical Bibliography, 1977; Conservation Politics: The Senate Career of Clinton P. Anderson, 1985; The Senate of the United States: A Bicentennial History, 1988. EDITOR: Proceedings: Conference on Research Use and Disposition of Senators' Papers, 1979; (with B. Dole, and contrib) Historical Almanac of the United States Senate, 1989; (with R.H. Davidson) First among Equals: Senate Leaders of the Twentieth Century, 1991. Work represented in anthologies. Address: Historical Office, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510, U.S.A. Online address: HISTORIAN@SEC.SENATE.GOV