Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker

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Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker (1811 - 1861) who served for the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives and later as a U.S. Senator from Oregon. Baker served as a colonel during the Mexican-American War and the Civil War where he was killed in the Battle of Ball’s Bluff becoming the only sitting senator to be killed in the Civil War.

Keywords

Civil War, US Senator, Battle of Ball's Bluff, Battle of Harrison's Island, Battle of Leesburg, Battle that killed Colonel Baker, Edward Dickinson Baker

Galleries

Illinois, Oregon, Famous People: B, US Senators

Source

Charles Carleton Coffin Drum-Beat of the Nation (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1915)

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