Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek
“Our country has lost a great statesman and a great Tennessean. Senator Baker will live on in our hearts forever as a man who believed that government was to serve the people.”
Matt Murray, director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
“The Baker Center stands as a living legacy to a member of the greatest generation. Senator Howard Baker will always represent what is good about those who serve our country unselfishly. We are honored to carry on his work to create a more civil engagement in our government.”
Senator Baker at UT
Baker earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1949. The university awarded its first honorary doctorate to the great statesman in spring 2005.
The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy was founded in 2003 on the UT campus as a nonpartisan institute devoted to education and research concerning public policy and civic engagement.