Jack D. Baker
1102 Marlboro Lane
Oklahoma City, Ok 73116
Home: 405-840-1377
Cell: 918-457-9382
Jack D. Baker was born on his Grandfather’s Cherokee Allotment at Chewey, Adair County, Oklahoma. His grandfather was Daniel B. Frog (a/k/a Daniel Downing). He is the son of the late Ed and Deloris (Downing) Baker. He attended schools at Chewey and Westville. He graduated from Oklahoma State University with a B. S. in Accounting. He retired in 1999 from Liberty Mutual Insurance Company after 29 Years:
He is national president of the Trail of Tears Association and, as such, works with the National Park Service and other organizations including various State Parks, The Nature Conservancy, The Trust for Public Land, and many publicly and privately owned sites historically connected to the Trail of Tears in order to protect the sites and provide interpretation for visitors to the sites.
Baker is the treasurer of the Cherokee National Historical Society, Inc. which operates the Cherokee Heritage Center. He is also a board member of the Oklahoma Historical Society which operates about 40 historic sites across the state including Sequoyah’s Home, the Murrell Home, and Fort Gibson as well as the newly opened Oklahoma History Center. Of the 25 board members, he is the only Native American.
He has been president for more than twenty years of Goingsnake District Heritage Association which is a local historical society based in Westville organized to preserve the heritage of the Goingsnake District of the Cherokee Nation. He is a board member of the Cherokee-Moravian Historical Association which was formed to create awareness of the early relationship between the Moravian Church and the Cherokee Nation.
Baker also served as a member of the 1999 Cherokee Constitutional Convention. Until obtaining his position on the Tribal Council, he served on the Cherokee Nation Registration Committee and as president of the board of the Cherokee Nation Education Corporation.