James A. Baker III

James A. Baker III was White House Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary under Reagan and Secretary of State under George H.W. Bush. Relevant to this graph, he was "a longtime participant in a prayer cell facilitated by Doug Coe" and delivered the keynote at the 1990 National Prayer Breakfast [S1][S2]. A user lead held that Baker "ran" The Fellowship (The Family); the documented record does not support that — he was a participant and prominent guest, never an officer, and the group's actual corporate president in that era was Richard E. Carver [S3]. (Note: this is a different figure from the vault's Howard Baker, Howard Baker Jr.)

Sources

[S1] "Book Excerpt: The Family" (Jeff Sharlet) — Mother Jones — https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/05/book-excerpt-family — Accessed 2026-07-17 [S2] "Remarks at the Annual National Prayer Breakfast (1990)" — The American Presidency Project — https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-annual-national-prayer-breakfast — Accessed 2026-07-17 [S3] "Book Excerpt: C-Street" (Jeff Sharlet) — WBUR Here & Now — https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2010/09/20/book-excerpt-c-street — Accessed 2026-07-17

See The Fellowship (The Family) for the full network context, and the research report.