The agency was commissioned within the Treasury Department, and the Secret Service was entirely focused on counterfeit money, a major problem of the day.
Threatening presidents was not made a crime until 1917, the same year Congress approved Secret Service protection for the immediate family of a president.
The Secret Service remained a part of the Treasury Department until 2003, when a massive government reorganization after the 9/11 terror attacks moved the Secret Service to the Department of Homeland Security.
But the Secret Service is still tasked with fighting financial crimes.
The entire Secret Service employs nearly 8,000 people for its protective and investigative missions, and it secures thousands of events each year.
Persons:
Abraham Lincoln, Allan Pinkerton, Lincoln, Erik Larson, Pinkerton, Union Gen, George McClellan, McClellan, Lafayette Baker, John Frederick Parker, Parker, John Wilkes Booth, Baker, Booth, Grover Cleveland, — James Garfield, William McKinley, Leon Czolgosz, Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Robert F, Kennedy, Trump’s reemergence, Trump, CNN’s Stephen Collinson, Kamala Harris, walling, Ryan Wesley Routh, Sen, JD Vance, Trump’s, Ron DeSantis, Kimberly Cheatle
Organizations:
CNN, Union, of Congress, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Magazine, Ford’s Theatre, United States Secret Service, Service, Treasury Department, Congress, White, California Democratic, Department of Homeland Security, Trump, Republican, Secret Service, Republican Gov
Locations:
Baltimore, Lincoln, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, New York City, Pennsylvania, West Palm Beach , Florida, Alexandria, Virginia