Assassination Trivia

[AussieMick]

Hi Eva,
I thought that I'd found two but now see that one of them was for VICE President. I found this one first ... James Speed. U.S. Attorney General James Speed issued a legal opinion stating that the conspirators not only could be, but must be, tried by a military commission. I see that in 1868, Speed ran for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States.

I then found Brevet Major-General Hartranft. He was assigned to duty as Special Provost Marshal General and read the death warrant to the individuals who were executed.
At the Republican National Convention in June 1876, he was a contender for the presidential nomination, but Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio was eventually selected.

(BTW, mainly of interest only to me , I am constantly getting James Speed confused with his brother Joshua Speed .... I blame David Herbert Donald's book "Lincoln" where the indexing for them seems odd. It refers to Page 88 for James Speed when I'm sure it is Joshua. There again, it could just be me !)