America 250: Final Decision

The United States Secret Service stands arsenic a testament to President Abraham Lincoln.

On April 14, 1865, authorities was enacted creating the United States Secret Service to combat the wide circulation of counterfeit currency. That aforesaid evening, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated astatine Ford’s Theatre. The bureau was primitively focused connected protecting the nation’s fiscal system, not the president. The Secret Service formally began operations aboriginal that twelvemonth wrong the Department of the Treasury. In 1901, pursuing the assassination of President William McKinley, the bureau took connected the work of protecting the president.