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Samuel Alexander Mudd Sr. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Mudd worked as a doctor and tobacco farmer in Southern Maryland.
Apr 14, 2015 · During the Civil War, Samuel A. Mudd was a surgeon and tobacco farmer in southern Maryland, a hotbed of Confederate sympathy.
Jun 12, 2006 · When John Wilkes Booth knocked on Dr. Samuel Mudd's front door, he knew he had a friend who would help him assassinate the president.
Apr 14, 2024 · On this day — April 14 — in 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. Booth injured himself, requiring medical treatment, while a manhunt for him was...
Feb 14, 1993 · More than a century after his death, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd's appeal to clear his name as a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's assassination was finally heard. He won, but it was only in...
Quick Facts. Samuel Alexander Mudd I was a physician, small-scale tobacco farmer and slave owner who assisted in the escape of John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Jun 10, 2024 · It was a story about Samuel A. Mudd, and his life prison sentence for conspiracy and association with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Sam was a 31-year-old country doctor, and the father of four children (Andrew, Lillian, Thomas, and Samuel A. Mudd, II), when President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on Good Friday, April 14th, 1865.
Samuel Mudd . Library of Congress. Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd 32 years old, Mudd was a graduate of St. John's College and Georgetown College (now University), and got his miedical degree from the Baltimore Medical College in 1856.
Biographic Sketch of Dr. Samuel Mudd. The conviction of Dr. Samuel Mudd proved to be--along with the death sentence for Mary Surratt--the most controversial action of the Military Commission that tried the Lincoln assassination conspirators.
