Mudd, Samuel Alexander (1833-1883), was the doctor who set John Wilkes Booth’s leg after Booth assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Mudd claimed he did not recognize Booth. A military court found Mudd guilty as an accessory after the fact in the assassination. Sentenced to life imprisonment, Mudd saved many prisoners and guards in a yellow fever epidemic. In 1869, he was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson and freed from prison. Mudd was born on Dec. 20, 1833, in Charles County, Maryland. He died on Jan. 10, 1883.
