# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lewis-powell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:34:35.183Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lewis-powell"
name: "Lewis Powell"
slug: "lewis-powell"
description: "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."
tagline: "American soldier and conspirator (1844–1865)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lewis_Payne.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1844-04-22"
deathDate: "1865-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.07778133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Powell_(suikast%C3%A7%C4%B1)"
    title: "Lewis Powell (suikastçı)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "لويس باول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Powell"
    title: "Lewis Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Powell"
    title: "Lewis Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%B9%CF%82_%CE%A0%CE%AC%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B5%CE%BB"
    title: "Λιούις Πάουελ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Powell_(conspirator)"
    title: "Lewis Powell (conspirator)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Powell"
    title: "Lewis Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "لویس پاول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Powell"
    title: "Lewis Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A3%A8%EC%9D%B4%EC%8A%A4_%ED%8C%8C%EC%9B%94"
    title: "루이스 파월"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Powell"
    title: "Lewis Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Powell"
    title: "Lewis Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9B%D1%8C%D1%8E%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Пауэлл, Льюис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Powell_(zarotnik)"
    title: "Lewis Powell (zarotnik)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Powell"
    title: "Lewis Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Powell"
    title: "Lewis Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321183"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump