Papers, 1865-1987.

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Papers, 1865-1987.

Consists of items relating to Dr. Samuel A. Mudd of Charles County, Maryland, who treated John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and served a prison term in the Dry Tortugas of Florida. The collection deals primarily with the attempts of Dr. Richard Mudd of Michigan to clear the name of his ancestor, and includes clippings, photographs, and letters. One letter is from President Jimmy Carter.

6 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7261201

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Mudd, Richard Dyer, 1901-2002

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Grandson of Dr. Samuel Mudd who was implicated in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. From the description of Oral history interview, 1972. (Maryland Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32818965 ...

Mudd, Samuel Alexander, 1833-1883

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Physician who lived with his wife and children on a farm near Bryantown, Maryland at the time of President Lincoln's assassination and treated John Wilkes Booth after the murder. He was convicted of conspiring with the killers because he had set Booth's broken leg during the assassin's flight. While on Tortugas Island he worked as the prison doctor during the yellow fever epidemic. President Andrew Johnson pardoned him in 1869, and in 1979 a presidential proclamation cleared his name. He was ele...

Hamilton, Charles, Colonel.

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Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

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Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy, a registered nurse. He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a ...