# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-dickinson-baker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:55:19.976Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-dickinson-baker"
name: "Edward Dickinson Baker"
slug: "edward-dickinson-baker"
description: "Edward Dickinson Baker was an American politician, lawyer, and US army officer. In his political career, Baker served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and later as a U.S. senator from Oregon. He was also known as an orator and poet. A long-time close friend of the president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, Baker served as U.S. Army colonel during both the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. Baker was killed in the Battle of Ball's Bluff while leading a Union Army regiment, becoming the only sitting U.S. senator ever to be killed in a military engagement."
tagline: "American politician, lawyer and military leader (1811–1861)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward_Dickinson_Baker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1811-02-24"
deathDate: "1861-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.262988752008571
  historical:           13.44936133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump