for him. It is located between Forts Meigs and Stanton, one mile east of Uniontown at Fort Baker Drive and 30th Street. A life-size marble statue of Baker was sculpted by Horatio Stone and placed in the Capitol Building. The Congressional bills that provided $10,000 in funds for its creation are viewable at the Library of Congress website. On December 12, 1861, after the announcement of Baker's death, a resolution was submitted, by James W. Nesmith of Oregon, and passed which stated that Senate members would go into mourning by wearing crepe on their left arms for thirty days. There is a plaster carving of his face at the Illinois State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. It is located in the Legislative Reference Bureau legal library, carved into the wall. San Francisco's Baker Street, extending from Haight Street at Buena Vista Park, past the Palace of Fine Arts to the marina within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area at Marina Boulevard, is named after Baker. On May 19, 2011, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber signed SB809 into law, designating each February 24 as Edward D. Baker Day in Oregon at the urging of local members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. On October 23, 2011, the Oregon Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission held a special commemorative service honoring the life and public service of Baker in Salem, Oregon, held at the hour of his death at the Battle of Ball's Bluff, 150 years earlier. A simultaneous commemoration was held in Leesburg, Virginia. See also List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899) List of United States Congress members killed or wounded in office List of American Civil War generals (Union) List of United States senators from Oregon Abraham Lincoln American Civil War Notes References Baker Family International Biographical Sketch of Col. Edward D. Baker The Political Graveyard San Francisco Genealogy, which has a more in-depth biography. Edward Dickinson Baker, by William David Fenton in the Oregon Historical Quarterly 1908. External links Retrieved on February 14, 2008 Col. Edward D. Baker Camp - Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War eHistory biography The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress have several notes and letters of correspondence between Baker and Lincoln, as well as other notable individuals. In Memory: Senator Edward Dickinson Baker (1811-1861) Oregon Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission |- |- 1811 births 1861