Susan Winston was not only a close friend of Mary Stuarts but was married to Bakers close friend James Jimbo Winston. The first James Addison Baker arrived in Texas in the 1850s from Alabama, settling in the newly founded town of Huntsville, where he met Sam Houston, the famed hero of the Texas Revolution. He was not above political hardball to advance his teams chances at the ballot box. He was the person who was expected to succeed in a grand way, and I think even when he was a young man, it was assumed that he would fulfill those expectations.. Linda Coffee Argued Roe v. Wade. His son James A. Baker Jr. was called Captain Baker for his time in the Houston Light Guards, a uniformed company of the states National Guard formed by Confederate veterans after Reconstruction, even though he never saw action of any kind. James Baker has been featured repeatedly in the Russian investigations launched by the Justice Department.