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Ward Hill Lamon
Bodyguard of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln
Ward Hill Lamon (January 6, – May 7, ) was a personal friend and self-appointed bodyguard of U.S.
PresidentAbraham Lincoln.
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Lamon was famously absent the night Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre on April 14, , having been sent by Lincoln to Richmond, Virginia.
Background
Lamon's family name was spelled by some relatives with an "e" and by others with an "a", and was pronounced as "lemon" regardless of spelling.[2] Lamon's relationship with Lincoln has been traced by Clint Clay Tilton in Lincoln and Lamon.
Lamon was born near Winchester, Virginia, studied medicine for two years, and moved to Danville, Illinois, when he was 19 to live with relatives.[3] He attended the University of Louisville to receive his law degree and was admitted to the Illinois bar in [4] In , he moved back to Virginia, married Angelina Turner, and then returned to Illinois to practice