Title: Ward Hill Lamon Description: Ward Hill Lamon (January 6, 1828-May 7, 1893), strong six-foot-two-inch tall bodyguard and friend of Abraham Lincoln (February 25, 1809-April 15, 1865), sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865); Lamon was in Richmond, Virginia, when Lincoln was assassinated in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, by American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865), on April 14, 1865, and insisted that if he had been with the president that night, the assassin could never have shot him; Lamon, a handsome "Virginia Cavalier," had been Lincoln's law partner in Danville, Illinois; Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: lawyers, Abraham Lincoln's law partners, presidents of the U.S., Richmond, Virginia, U.S. presidents. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1200 x 1616 (1.94 MPixels) (1.35) Print Size: 10.2 x 13.7 cm; 4.0 x 5.4 inches File Size: 5.58 MB (5,849,350 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530762 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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