1926. Personal life Baker married Bonner Means on August 4, 1917. The two met while they were attending the University of Texas and they engaged on 9 May 1917. As Baker anticipated his military orders, the couple accelerated their wedding schedule and scaled down the event. After the marriage, they honeymooned at Mackinac Island, Michigan. From 1927, the Bakers resided at their house on the curve on Poor Farm Road (Bissonnet Street) in the Turner Addition. Their neighbors included relatives and friends: Browne and Adelaide Lovett Baker, Malcolm Lovett, and William Kirkland. The Bakers lived at this address for the rest of their married lives. His father, also named James Addison Baker, was a partner of Baker, Botts and Baker and other antecedent of Baker Botts. James Addison Baker Jr. became a partner after ten years with the firm. Today, the law firm is called Baker Botts, a major United States-based international law firm of around 800 attorneys. His son, James A. Baker III, is the political figure especially known from the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations. Citations References External links 1892 births 1973 deaths American jurists The Hill School alumni Princeton University alumni United States Army personnel of World War I Lawyers from Houston University of Texas School of Law alumni Military personnel from Houston People associated with Baker Botts 20th-century American lawyers TMI Episcopal alumni United States Army officers