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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.
Al Pinkerton (fl. 2024–present), British politician and academic; Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), Scottish-American detective and spy, founder of what would become the Pinkerton National Detective Agency; Bill Pinkerton (born 1932), Scottish football goalkeeper; Brian Pinkerton (fl. 2004–present), American fiction author
Since his time in government Pinkerton has become a columnist for Newsday and a Fox News Channel Contributor (1996 to present). He is a former panelist (1998-2013) on the Fox News program Fox News Watch, and a frequent contributor to Breitbart as well as an occasional contributor to The Huffington Post, National Review, and other publications.
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.
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John Pinkerton (17 February 1758 – 10 March 1826 [1]) was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic racial supremacy theory. He was born in Edinburgh , as one of three sons to James Pinkerton and Mary (nee Heron or Bowie) Pinkerton.