Bodyguard of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln
Ward Hill Lamon
Lamon c. 1860
Born
(1828-01-06)January 6, 1828
Winchester, Virginia, U.S.[1]
Died
May 7, 1893(1893-05-07) (aged 65)
Martinsburg, West Virginia, U.S.
Resting place
Gerrardstown, West Virginia, U.S.
Education
University of Louisville
Occupations
Attorney
bodyguard
U.S. Marshal
Known for
Being the bodyguard of Abraham Lincoln
Notable work
The Life of Abraham Lincoln; From his Birth to his Inauguration as President
Spouses
Angelina Turner
(m. 1850; died 1859)
Sally Logan
(m. 1860)
Children
Dorothy Lamon
Ward Hill Lamon (January 6, 1828 – May 7, 1893) was a personal friend and self-appointed bodyguard of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Lamon was famously absent the night Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, having been sent by Lincoln to Richmond, Virginia.
^James G. Randall, "Ward Hill Lamon," DAB, 10: 562-63.
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to David Herold, "By God, I'll put him through.": 91 According to WardHillLamon, three days before his death, Lincoln related a dream in which he wandered...
religious sense. However, others who had known Lincoln for years, such as WardHillLamon and William Herndon, rejected the idea that he was a believing Christian...
left the task of delegate wrangling to his friends Leonard Swett, WardHillLamon, and David Davis. During the night of May 17–18, they worked frantically...
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oft-repeated legend, Lincoln is said to have turned to his bodyguard WardHillLamon and remarked that his speech, like a bad plow, "won't scour". According...
in Bloomington, Illinois. In 1865, he settled in Chicago. Swett and WardHillLamon, along with another Lincoln associate, David Davis, helped engineer...
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assassinated had I gone through Baltimore…" In his biography of Lincoln, WardHillLamon considered the plan to be part of Pinkerton's "political ambitions"...
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single primary source document is a manuscript written in the 1880s by WardHillLamon, Lincoln's friend, bodyguard, and United States Marshal for the District...
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Captain Charles Penrose, as quartermaster and commissary of subsistence; WardHillLamon, Lincoln's longtime bodyguard and friend and U.S. Marshal for the District...
sons, and brother-in-law, as well as John G. Nicolay, John M. Hay, WardHillLamon, David Davis, Norman B. Judd, Edwin Vose Sumner, as well as his African-American...