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= Fred Baker = Frederick Patterson Baker (born 20 April 1949) is an American businessman and politician who founded Baker Installations, a Pennsylvania-based cable television installation company, and served on the Allegheny Regional Asset District board.

Baker was born and in Benton, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, to Raymond Thomas Baker (1910-1982), a civil engineer, and Genevieve née Edwards (1912-2000). He is of primarily English and also Scottish, Welsh, German, French and Dutch ancestry. After graduating Benton Area High School in 1967, he attended Mississippi State University for one semester.

In 1976, he founded Baker Installations in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania. The company works in the cable television business installing data wires primarily in homes. The company has done significant wiring projects for organizations like the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Kansas Health System St. Francis. In 2004, the company employed 2,000 people and had revenues of about $134 million.

Baker is a member of the Republican Party, and a frequent donor to political campaigns. He served on the Allegheny Regional Asset District board, a body that provides grants from half the proceeds of the 1% Allegheny County Sales and Use Tax, from 1996 to 1998. He resigned under pressure because he refused to support a motion to allocate $13.4 to the building of PNC Park and Heinz Field.