Steve Largent was elected to Congress in 1994 and to the NFL Hall of Fame in 1995. Largent remained in Congress until 2002. Jack Kemp
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As far as the NFL is concerned, that distinction goes to Jack Shapiro who played one game for the Staten Island Stapletons in 1929. Shapiro was listed at 5 feet 1/2 inch and weighing 119 pounds.
Baseball's Boston Red Sox player Ted Williams flew US Navy fighter planes during the Korean War.
Because it was a slave-state that had pro-Confederate leaders, and could easily have seceded. Also it was on the route between New York and Washington, and could have interrupted the movement of troops and supplies between the two centres.
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