Abraham W. Bolden (born January 19, 1935) is a former United States Secret Service agent. He was the first African American assigned to the presidential security detail, appointed in 1961 by John F. Kennedy. In 1964, Bolden was fired from the Secret Service after he was charged with accepting a bribe in relation to a counterfeiting case he had been investigating. Convicted by a …

2022年5月3日 · On April 26, President Joe Biden pardoned Abraham Bolden, an 87-year-old who was the first Black man to join the presidential Secret Service security detail. Bolden’s presidential pardon — for a ginned-up 1964 bribery conviction based on the testimony of witnesses who later admitted to lying — was the first introduction for many Americans to Bolden. The pardon …

2022年4月26日 · In his first grants of clemency, the US president pardons three people and commutes 75 sentences.

Abraham Bolden, often erroneously referred to as the first Black Secret Service Agent, was, in fact, the first Black agent assigned to the prestigious White House Detail. Bolden was born to Daniel and Ophelia Bolden in East St. Louis, Illinois, on January 19, 1935. He graduated from East St. Louis’s Lincoln High School in 1952 and attended Lincoln University in Jefferson City, …

2022年5月6日 · In his autobiography published in 2008, Bolden said that he was framed by other Secret Service agents who were angry because he had complained that agents assigned to President John F. Kennedy’s detail had been drinking the night before Kennedy was assassinated and were derelict in their duty.

2024年2月14日 · In honor of Black History Month 2024, the Office of the Pardon Attorney would like to shine a light on pardon recipient Abraham W. Bolden, Sr. Mr. Bolden, the first African American Secret Service Agent assigned to a presidential detail, was granted a full and unconditional pardon by President Biden on April 26, 2022.

2022年6月9日 · Abraham Bolden holds a proclamation celebrating his presidential pardon and honoring his work as the nation’s first Black Secret Service Agent to work on a presidential detail.

2022年4月28日 · Abraham Bolden maintained his innocence for 60 years before President Joe Biden used one of his first pardons on the first Black Secret Service agent assigned to a presidential detail.

Primary Sources Abraham Bolden Abraham Bolden was born into a poor family in East St. Louis, Illinois. After graduating from Lincoln University he spent four years as an Illinois State Trooper. His record was so outstanding that in 1959 President Dwight Eisenhower appointed him to the United States Secret Service. Based in Chicago, he won "two commendations for cracking …

2022年4月26日 · Abraham Bolden Sr., on President Biden’s pardon list, was the first Black Secret Service agent to serve on a presidential detail.