Which president-elect did Pinkerton claim to have saved from an assassination plot?
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Answer
Allan Pinkerton claimed to have foiled the Baltimore Plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Lincoln later hired Pinkerton agents to conduct espionage against the Confederacy and act as his personal security during the American Civil War.
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