Lewis Powell (conspirator)

Lewis Thornton Powell was an American Confederate soldier who attempted to assassinate William Henry Seward as part of the Lincoln assassination plot. Wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, he later served in Mosby's Rangers before working with the Confederate Secret Service in Maryland. John Wilkes Booth recruited him into a plot to kidnap Lincoln and turn the president over to the Confederacy, but then decided to assassinate Lincoln, Seward, and Vice President Andrew Johnson instead, and assigned Powell the task to kill Seward.

22 April 1844

Born on the same birth day (22 April): Alo Mattiisen • Bernhard Gregory • Charlotte Rae • Dan Cloutier • Gani Fawehinmi • Harold Jeffreys • Jack Nitzsche • Jeff Minter • John Foley (British Army officer) • John Maples • Laurel Aitken • Marshawn Lynch • Mary Prior • Richard Glücks • Shkëlzen Shala • Solomon Caesar Malan

Born in the same month (April 1844): Anatole France • William Lyne