Ward Hill Lamon (January 6, 1828 - May 7, 1893) was a personal friend and frequent bodyguard of the American President Abraham Lincoln. Lamon was famously missing the night Lincoln was assassinated, having been sent by Lincoln to Virginia. His association with Lincoln started in the 1850s, when he became a law partner and traveled with Lincoln. The two had a law office in Danville, Illinois up until 1858. Wikipedia
Born in Virginia in 1828, Lamon studied law in Louisville, Kentucky, and settled in Danville, Illinois, where he was admitted to the bar. www.tulane.edu/~latner/Lamon.html
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