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Allan Pinkerton

Allan Pinkerton


Dead at 64 years
Birthday
Wednesday
He is born 204 years, 7 months and 3 days ago
Death date
Tuesday

He is dead since 139 years, 8 months and 26 days

Cause of death: gangrene

Birthplace
Glasgow, Scotland
Nationality: british Royaume-Uni
Birth sign: Virgo

Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819 – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish-American cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, he provided the Union Army – specifically General George B. McClellan of the Army of the Potomac – with military intelligence, including extremely inaccurate enemy troop strength numbers. After the war, his agents played a significant role as strikebreakers – in particular during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 – a role that Pinkerton men would continue to play after the death of their founder.

Source : Wikipedia