Howard M. Baldrige Jr.

(1922-1987) born in Omaha. Businessman and political aide, served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and considered most influential Commerce Secretary since Herbert Hoover in the 1920s, advocate of fair trade practices; posthumous recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988. Consult Omaha World Herald, December 12, 1980, p. 2 and Current Biography (1982) 20-23 and New York Times obituary, July 27, 1987, pp. A-1, A-16 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol 2 (1999) 57-59.

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