Richard Baker

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Category: Louisiana Republicans

Richard Baker was a Republican Congressman from Louisiana's 6th district. He resigned on Feb. 7, 2008 to take a lobbying job with the Hedge Fund industry.

Quotes

• "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did," - after Hurrican Katrina (Source: Some GOP Legislators Hit Jarring Notes in Addressing Katrina, Washington Post, September 10, 2005, p.A4.) Baker later denied saying this.

External Links

• BAKER, Richard Hugh from Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present