A Scottish-American detective who founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850, hired the first female detective, Kate Warne, and developed early centralized criminal records, practices that influenced later law enforcement record systems. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountFounded the first major private detective agency in the United States and pioneered undercover work and centralized criminal records. 1 Connections
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Source Wikipedia: Pinkerton (Detective Agency)
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1. Wikipedia: Allan Pinkerton
In Group: Founders of Modern Policing and Early Detectives, Lead sentenceQuote, In Group: Founders of Modern Policing and Early Detectives, Lead sentence
Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819, July 1, 1884) was a Scottish-American detective, spy, abolitionist, and cooper best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have obstructed the Baltimore Plot in 1861, preventing the assassination of then president-elect Abraham Lincoln.
2. Wikidata: Allan Pinkerton
Wikidata Q365650, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Wikipedia: Pinkerton (Detective Agency)
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