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JOSEPH HOLT (1807-1894). Commissioner of Patents (1857), Postmaster General (1859) and Secretary of War (1860) under President James Buchanan, achieved national prominence serving President Abraham Lincoln as the nation's first Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the United States Army, a position he held from (1862-1875), most memorable role as JAG following the assassination of President Lincoln, when Holt presided over the trial of the Lincoln assassination conspirators including the first woman ever hanged by the federal government, Mary Surratt.
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