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Pinkerton is an American private investigation and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819 [1] – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish-American cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln.
Pinkerton is the second studio album by the American rock band Weezer, released on September 24, 1996, by DGC Records.The guitarist and vocalist Rivers Cuomo wrote most of Pinkerton while studying at Harvard University, after abandoning plans for a rock opera, Songs from the Black Hole.
It is made by the Pinkerton Tobacco company of Owensboro, Kentucky. In 1985, Pinkerton was acquired by a Swedish corporation, and after further corporate reshuffling, the brand now falls under the umbrella of the Swedish Match company, which in turn is owned primarily by institutional investors. The proportion owned by non-Swedish investors is ...
This category contains articles related to the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, including people, incidents, law, and successor companies. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pinkerton National Detective Agency .
Pinkerton Academy, a high school in Derry, New Hampshire; Pinkerton Lecture, an annual lecture named after computer designer John Pinkerton; Pinkerton syndrome, the perceived tendency of some Asians to regard white people as superior or more desirable; All pages with titles containing Pinkerton; All pages with titles beginning with Pinkerton
The Pinkertons is a Canadian Western police procedural television series which features crime cases of the Pinkerton detective agency.The show is officially licensed with the Pinkerton detective agency, [3] and features stories based on actual cases from the Pinkerton detective agency archives dating to the 1860s.
Alasdair Douglas Pinkerton [1] is a British Liberal Democrat politician and academic who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Heath since 2024. He has been an associate professor in geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Pinkerton currently sits on the Liberal Democrat frontbench team as the Spokesman for Northern Ireland.