James A. Baker Jr.

James Addison Baker Jr. (November 3, 1892 – May 21, 1973) was an American attorney,[1] banker, real estate developer, and United States Army officer from Houston, Texas.

He reported to Quartermaster School in San Antonio commissioned as a lieutenant, and began his tour with the 90th Division's 359th Infantry Regiment on the western front in July 1918.

Rice architect William Ward Watkin laid out the landscaping and designed a new Spanish-Mediterranean home for Captain Baker.

When the infrastructure for Broadacres was completed by September 24, 1924, Baker announced that the assessments to lot owners would be reduced because the final bills came in below estimated costs.

Though his parents resided at Broadacres, Baker developed a lot in a neighboring subdivision on Poor Farm Road in 1926.

[citation needed] His son, James A. Baker III, is the political figure especially known from the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations.