HE WAS THE ONLY U.S. SENATOR EVER KILLED IN A MILITARY CONFLICT! #shorts

Edward Baker was a Senator in Oregon from October 2nd, 1860 to October 21st, 1861. When the war broke out, he became a Colonel in the Union Army where he was killed at the battle of Ball's Bluff. He remains the only U.S. Senator to be killed in a military engagement.

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