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Charles Duane Baker Jr. is an American politician serving as the sixth president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 72nd governor of Massachusetts from 2015 to 2023, and held two cabinet positions under two of the state's previous governors. He also served for ten years as the CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
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Born 13 November 1956 · Q5076629
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I cannot support the sections of this proposal that expand the availability of later term abortions and permit minors age 16 and 17 to get an abortion without the consent of a parent or guardian
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“s recommendations that included a $5.8 million program to move civil commitments for substance abuse from state prisons to state hospitals operated by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, with Baker himself saying,”
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“I cannot support the sections of this proposal that expand the availability of later term abortions and permit minors age 16 and 17 to get an abortion without the consent of a parent or guardian”
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“Our administration fully supports access to women”
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In a US Senate hearing on sports betting, Baker got into a heated exchange about transgender athletes on college teams and in locker rooms with Sen
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Baker delivered his farewell address from the Massachusetts State House
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Career landmark: chairperson (2023).
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Career landmark: board of directors member (2023).
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Baker was named as Mark Emmert's successor as president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
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The NCAA announced that Baker had been named the sixth president of the NCAA, effective March 2023
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Baker's son Andrew "AJ" Baker was accused of sexually assaulting a woman on a JetBlue flight
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Was reelected handily over Democratic challenger Jay Gonzalez with 67% of the vote, the largest vote share in a Massachusetts gubernatorial election since 1994
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Campaign: 2018 reelection election.
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“s Northern Pass Project had received preliminary approval for the hydropower procurement under the energy diversification law. The following month, the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee rejected the Northern Pass Project”
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And the following May, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health released further data showing the number of opioid overdose deaths in Massachusetts during the first three months of 2018 was 5 percent lower than duri
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“s energy storage market, in accordance with the same energy diversification law and the administration”
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Baker's administration sided with the U
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“s public universities and colleges. In September 2016, Baker”
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“compensation program to provide alternative treatments to opioids for workers with settled claims for on-the-job injuries. In February 2017, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health released data showing that estimated opioid-related deaths had increased to nearly 2,000 during 2016, after increasing from estimates of under 1,400 in 2014 and to under 1,800 in 2015. In March 2017, Baker was appointed to the Trump Administration”
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At the Massachusetts State House in Boston
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Boston magazine wrote a piece on his music preferences, stating that Baker "is shamelessly Top 40 in his tastes, stuck mostly in the classic rock that dominated radio of his teens and twenties, aka the 1970s and '80s" bu
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Career landmark: Governor of Massachusetts (2015–2023).
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Election won: 2014 gubernatorial election.
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Baker ran for governor again and narrowly defeated Democratic nominee Martha Coakley
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Campaign: 2014 gubernatorial election.
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Mark Fisher, a businessman and Tea Party member announced that he would run against Baker in the Republican primary
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Baker announced that he would run for governor again in 2014 when incumbent governor Deval Patrick retired
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Election lost: 2010 gubernatorial election.
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Baker won the Republican nomination over former Independent candidate Christy Mihos with 89% of the delegate vote, thus avoiding a primary fight with Mihos
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Campaign: 2010 gubernatorial election.
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Baker announced his candidacy, and on July 17 he stepped down from his position at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
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Baker was again rumored to be a contender for the Massachusetts gubernatorial election
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Joined the Public Advisory Board of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics (NHIOP) at Saint Anselm College
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And it was predicted to lose over $90 million in 1999
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The federal government was planning to cut funding for the Big Dig by $300 million per year
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And Paul Cellucci took over as acting governor
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Was appointed secretary of health and human services of Massachusetts
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Became Massachusetts Undersecretary of Health and Human Services under Governor Bill Weld
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And later obtained an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management
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With a Bachelor of Arts in English, where, by his own admission, he was a C-student-turned-B-student
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Alongside future Governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy
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Where Baker attended Needham High School
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The Bakers moved to Washington, D
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His father became vice president of Harbridge House, a Boston management consulting firm
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Born 1956-11-13.
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