What is Allan Pinkerton?
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox person |name = Allan Pinkerton |image = Allan Pinkerton-retouch.jpg |caption = Portrait of Allan Pinkerton, circa 1861 |birth_date = {{Birth date|1819|8|25}} |birth_place = [[The Gorbals]], [[Glasgow]], Scotland |death_date = {{Death date and age|1884|7|1|1819|8|21}} |death_place = [[Chicago]], Illinois, US |resting_place = [[Graceland Cemetery]], Chicago |known_for = Creating [[Pinkerton Agency|Pinkerton Detective Agency]], being an American Civil War Union spy |occupation = [[Cooper (profession)|Cooper]], [[Abolitionism|abolitionist]], [[detective]], [[espionage|spymaster]] |spouse = Joan Pinkerton (m. 1842–1884) |children = 3 }} '''Allan J. Pinkerton''' (August 25, 1819 – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish–American [[detective]] and [[espionage|spy]]. He was best known for creating the [[Pinkerton National Detective Agency]]. He was known for protecting then-[[President-elect of the United States]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] during the [[Baltimore Plot]] (a plan to kill Lincoln in [[Baltimore, Maryland]] in 1862).<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA215306197&v=2.1&u=lom_deltacoll&it=r&p=ITOF&asid=5181307a52e544f556bfca3b67b72027|title = Allan Pinkerton: America's first private eye (1819–1884)|last = Hunt|first = Russell A.|date = 2009|journal = The Forensic Examiner|access-date = }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pinkerton, Allan}} [[Category:1819 births]] [[Category:1884 deaths]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Chicago]] [[Category:Spies]] [[Category:Burials at Graceland Cemetery]] [[Category:American autobiographers]] [[Category:American abolitionists]] {{US-bio-stub}}