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A Short Biography of John Wilkes Booth

Author Name:

John Wilkes Booth

Born As:

John Wilkes Booth

Other Names:

John Wilkes Booth

Born:

1838

Died:

1865




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Actor and conspirator                          
                          
Mother Mary Ann Holmes, mother and mistress to
Father Junius Brutus Booth, ten children.

Junius Brutus Booth wife was Adelaide Delannoy Booth. Mary and Junius married when John was thirteen years old.                          
Assassin of Abraham Lincoln - 1865                          
Opposed the abolition of slavery in the United States and Lincoln's proposal to extend voting rights to recently emancipated slaves.