John Surratt
Military Person
1844 – 1916
Who was John Surratt?
John Harrison Surratt, Jr. was accused of plotting with John Wilkes Booth to kidnap U.S. president Abraham Lincoln and suspected of involvement in the Abraham Lincoln assassination. His mother Mary Surratt was convicted of conspiracy and hanged by the United States Federal Government. She owned the boarding house where Booth and fellow conspirators planned the scheme.
John Harrison Surratt, Jr. avoided arrest immediately after the assassination by fleeing the country. He served briefly as a Papal Zouave before his later arrest and extradition from Egypt. By the time he returned to the United States the statute of limitations had expired on most of the potential charges and he was not convicted.
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- Born
- Apr 13, 1844
Washington, D.C. - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Mary Hunter
(1872 - 1916/04/21)
- Mary Hunter
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- St. Charles College, Maryland
- Died
- Apr 21, 1916
Baltimore - Resting place
- New Cathedral Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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