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{{Infobox_President 
| name = [[Abraham Lincoln]]
| image = Abraham Lincoln head on shoulders photo portrait.jpg
| order = 16th [[President of the United States]]
| term_start = [[March 4]], [[1861]] 
| term_end = [[April 15]], [[1865]]
| successor = [[Andrew Johnson]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1809|2|12|mf=y}}
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==Background==
[[Allan Pinkerton]] was commissioned to provide security for president-elect Lincoln on his journey to Washington, D.C., through Baltimore. 

Whether or not there was a plot, Maryland 
was a [[slave sis located in the [[Southern United States]] with strong Southern sympathiesand was a [[slave state]] and was considered dangerous territory through which to travel for such a controversial politician.

==Lincoln's actions: appropriate, unnecessary, or cowardly==
[[Image:Pinkerton allan late harpers.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait of [[Allan Pinkerton]] from ''Harper's Weekly'', 1884]]
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[[Category:History of Maryland]]
[[Category:Abraham Lincoln]]
[[Category:American assassins]]
[[Category:Lincoln conspirators]]
[[Category:Abraham Lincoln assassination]]

[[fr:Complot de Baltimore]]