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Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819 [1] – 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.
Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish-born detective and founder of a famous American private detective agency. Pinkerton was the son of a police sergeant who died when Allan was a child, leaving the family in great poverty. Allan found work as a cooper and soon became involved in Chartism, a mass.
Allan Pinkerton (ur. 25 sierpnia 1819 w Glasgow, zm. 1 lipca 1884 w Chicago) – amerykański detektyw i wywiadowca, założyciel Agencji Pinkertona – pierwszej agencji detektywistycznej na świecie.
Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) – amerykański detektyw irlandzkiego pochodzenia, założyciel pierwszej na świecie agencji detektywistycznej (Agencja Pinkertona).
29 maj 2018 · Allan Pinkerton was a famous nineteenth-century detective and founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Pinkerton served as a spy during the u.s. civil war and was renowned for preventing the assassination of President-Elect abraham lincoln in 1861.
Pinkerton, who occasionally used the pseudonym Major E.J. Allen, excelled at sending agents behind enemy lines and ferreting out Confederate spies, but with few exceptions, such as Timothy Webster, his agents largely failed to collect any meaningful intelligence about Confederate forces.
31 lip 2020 · Allan Pinkerton was a cooper, abolitionist, and founder of the North-Western Police Agency, predecessor of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Forced to emigrate from Scotland in 1842 because of his radical, populist views, Pinkerton first established himself as a cooper in Dundee, Illinois but soon gravitated to police work.
