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Edward Dickinson Baker
Baker was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1860. In 1861 he resigned this Senatorship to enter the Union Army, commanding a Brigade at the Battle Ball's Bluff, where he was killed on 21 October 1861.
I took this photo because it struck me as extremely pompous and egotistical to wrap one's self in a Roman toga. The man would have been more dignified in the normal dress of his day.