Charles D. Baker learned to love politics at a young age.
“My interest in politics came mostly from my parents,” says Baker, who is running on the Republican ticket for governor of Massachusetts.
He recalls heated discussions across the kitchen table between his father, a conservative Republican, and his mother, a lifelong Democrat—discussions in which Baker and his two brothers were expected to take part.
Baker says that he learned many lessons about politics from those dinnertime debates.
“The biggest one is that you can disagree without being disagreeable,” he says. “[My parents have] been married for 55 years, and this is going to be the first time they vote for the same person.”
Though he was born in New York, Baker spent most of his childhood in Massachusetts, aside from a stretch in Washington, D.C., while his father served in the administration of then-U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.
The family returned to Massachusetts in time for Baker to enter high school there. He traveled less than 15 miles from Needham High to Thayer Hall when he began his freshman year at Harvard in 1975.
Read the full story at the Harvard Crimson.
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