Does anyone Know..

[Steve]

It was Confederate Col. James Gordon. The context of the quote is that in 1909, Gordon had been appointed by Mississippi's governor to temporarily fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. But a scandal broke out when a newspaper reported that he had once been a fugitive linked to Booth's plot before the government dropped him as a suspect. After the scandal broke, Gordon admitted involvement in Booth's kidnapping plot, but denied any knowledge of Booth's later assassination plot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gord...olitician)