Title: George Atzerodt Description: George Atzerodt (George Andreas Atzerodt; June 12, 1835-July 7, 1865), one of the conspirators involved in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln (February 25, 1809-April 15, 1865), sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865); Lincoln was shot by American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865) on April 14, 1865, and died the next day, shortly after the end of the American Civil War (1861-1865); Atzerodt, a thirty-three-year old house painter of German extraction from Port Tobacco, Maryland, on the Potomac River, intended to kill Vice-President Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808-July 31, 1875), who became the seventeenth President of the United States (1865-1869); a military tribunal sentenced Atzerodt to be hanged; Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: actors, American Civil War (1861-1865), assassinations, Ford's Theatre, hangings, house painters, Maryland, Port Tobacco, Maryland, presidential debates, presidents of the U.S., stage actors, U.S. Presidents, U.S. Senate. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1200 x 1683 (2.02 MPixels) (1.40) Print Size: 10.2 x 14.2 cm; 4.0 x 5.6 inches File Size: 5.80 MB (6,086,636 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530562 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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