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NewMembers to Board of Trustees S Wociety Hon. Richard Baker Historian Emeritus U.S. Senate Richard A. Baker directed the U.S. Senate Historical Office from its creation in 1975 through his retirement in 2009. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland and master's degrees from Columbia University and Michigan State University. He came to Washington in 1968 as a member of the Library of Congress's Special Recruit Program for Outstanding Library School Graduates. He later moved to the Senate as acting curator and then to the National Journal as research director. In 1975, the Senate's leader- ship hired Baker to establish the Senate Historical Office. Baker is the author of numerous Congress- related historical articles and several books, including a biography of New Mexico Sen. Clinton Anderson, a bicentennial history of the Senate, and 200 Notable Days: Senate Stories, 1787- 2002. He is a former president of the Society for History in the Federal Government and an occa- sional guest on C-SPAN. His role as Senate 5 THE CAPITOL DOME Historian involved him in preparing for the national bicentennial in 1976, the bicentennial of the Constitution in 1987, and the 200th anniversary of Congress in 1989. From 2000 to 2008, he served on the exhibition content development team for the Capitol Visitor Center. Ken Bowling First Federal Congress Project The George Washington University Kenneth Bowling is a scholar of the American Revolution, focusing on the creation of the federal government and particu- larly the establishment of its seat of government on the Potomac River. He received his PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 and has written and edited many articles and books since that time. In 1974, Bowling joined the staff of The George Washington University and is an adjunct associate professor of history as well as co-editor of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791. His Hon. Richard Burr U.S. Senate North Carolina Richard Burr was elected to the House of Representatives in 1994 and has served in the Senate since 2005. Burr established himself as a passionate legislator on health care issues and worked to restore accountability to the federal government. He is a vocal advocate for our men SPRING 2012 currently out-of-print Creation of Washington DC: The Idea and Location of the American Capital detailed the seven-year political struggle that finally situated the capital on the Potomac. In 2002 the University published his Peter Charles L'Enfant, a biography that tells the intriguing story of how a French-born American citizen and United States Army officer, who never once called himself Pierre after the Revolutionary War, was resurrected as a Frenchman by the politically influential French ambassador and the American Institute of Architects at the end of the nineteenth century. elcomes

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