Samuel Alexander Mudd (* 20 December 1833 in the Charles County, Maryland; "† 10 January 1883 ebd.) was an US-American physician and a later politician, who had medically treated the assassin of American president Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, and consequently the were accused.

Youth and training

Samuel, how he was generally called, came as the fourth of ten children of the owner of plan day Henry Lowe Mudd and his Mrs. Sarah Ann Reeves to the world. The Oak Hill large farm mentioned was appropriate for approximately 30 miles far away from Washington, D.C. After completing the Georgetown Alexander Mudd at the university of Maryland wrote itself college.

To the successful conclusion 1856 it returned to Charles County, where it practiced first as a physician, before it married its youth love, Sarah Dyer, on 26 November 1857 and with Bryantown in Maryland bought its own farm. From the marriage nine children followed.

Entangling into the assassination attempt

Mudd had been a proponent of the slavery and the army of the during the war of secession had supported always. It was well-known as active trailers of the Southern States.

This brought it in connection with John Wilkes Booth, which he met on 13 November 1864 for the first time, and this may murder him also in connection with the conspiracy Lincoln to have brought. After the assassination attempt on the presidents on 14 April 1865 Booth broke a leg during the escape from the theatre. Accompanied by David Herold reached Booth on the following day Mudds house. The physician fixed the bones, ski duck and bind-acted the leg and called after a carpenter, in order to procure to the hurt one a few sprags.

Accusation, condemnation and shank

Later the police authorities Mudds under the accusation of the conspiracy and murder of Lincoln capture. During the process Mudd denied that he had recognized Booth with the treatment, which did not contribute necessarily to its reliability.

At the 1. May 1865 arranged new president, Andrew Johnson, a commission of inquiry of nine officers, who had to examine the crimes of the conspirators. The actual process began to 10. May: Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Samuel Mudd, Michael O'Laughlin, to murder Edman Spangler and Samuel Arnold all were accused of the conspiracy with the goal Lincoln.

On 29 June 1865 one found Mudd of the guiltily. Only over only one voice escaped it the death penalty and to lifelong arrest was condemned. While four different were hung the accused in Washington on 7 July 1865, Mudd and three further into the prison from away Jefferson went.

When yellow fever broke 1867 off there, the prison physician died. Mudd explained itself ready, to take over whose position.

Pardon and Resozialisierung

Already at the 1. March 1869 begnadigte Andrew Johnson the physician, which suspended the president again the reproach, in the course of its in relation to the south after the war, the interests of the north to neglect.

1876 selected it the electors Marylands into the legislation of the Federal State. Already at the age of only 49 years Mudd at a pneumonia died - probably an indirect consequence its since the shank attacked health.

Other

• Its grandchild Richard Mudd worked untiringly up to his death 2002 with 102 years, in order to free its grandfather from the stigma of the

• The American idiom "His name is mud" (actually: Its name is mud, but in the transferred sense rather: Its name is dirt) to be seen in order to draw faithfully to the slogan nomen est the omen names of the questionable person literally into the dirt, is against earlier references in no connection with Mudd. The idiom nevertheless dipped in the reisserischen title of a book easily modified, that relatively successfully the rehabilitation attempts of the family Mudds to counter tried.

Literature

• Lake The Life OF Dr. Samuel A. Mudd (OD. by his more daughter, N. Mudd, 1906). (More or less a vindication)
• Edward J. Steers: His name Is quietly Mudd: The Case Against Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd, 1997, ISBN 1577470192 (more or less a vindication for the judgement; Steers tries to explain Mudd for perfectly guilty)

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