James Baker III is an American government official, political manager, and lawyer who occupied important posts in the Republican presidential administrations as an important advisor in the successful 1972 reelection campaign of Republican President Richard Nixon ,1980s and early 1990s. In 1978 he ran for the office of state attorney general of Texas and he was defeated which was the only time that he ever ran for public office himself. Attorney general race is the only time Baker has himself run as a candidate for political office.
