Howard M. Baldrige

Howard Malcolm Baldrige or H. Malcolm Baldrige (June 23, 1894 – January 19, 1985) was a Nebraska Republican politician.

He was born on June 23, 1894 at Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, the son of Nebraska state senator Howard Hammond Baldrige (1864–1928) and Letitia Blanche Coffey. He died on January 19, 1985, in Southbury, Connecticut. He is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Omaha) in Omaha.

He graduated from Omaha High School in 1912. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1914 and he graduated in 1918 from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut where he was a member of Skull and Bones and captain of the wrestling team. He was also a member of Psi Upsilon and was a letterman in football at Yale.

In World War I, he served as captain of Battery F, Three Hundred and Thirty-eighth Field Artillery for the United States. In 1921, he graduated from University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Law and was admitted to the bar, setting up practice in Omaha.

On November 30, 1921, he was married to Regina Katherine Connell at Omaha. She was born at Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska on September 23, 1896, the daughter of Dr. Ralph Wardlaw Connell and Katherine E Walsh. She was a 1921 graduate of Wellesley College. Her uncle, William James Connell, was a Nebraska Republican politician and served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Nebraska's 1st congressional district. Her first cousin, Dr. Karl Albert Connell, invented the gas mask used by American troops during World War I.

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