Photo: #The late Paul Wellstone, who represented Minnesota in the U.S. Senate from 1990-2002, when he was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota.
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The late Paul Wellstone, who represented Minnesota in the U.S. Senate from 1990-2002, when he was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota. (MPR file photo)

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Five years ago Thursday, Minnesota lost a senator. The plane carrying Sen. Paul Wellstone and seven other people crashed near Eveleth, leaving no survivors. The crash -- the months and years that preceded it and the days that followed it -- marks one of the most important chapters in Minnesota history.

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