Abraham Lincoln pardoned Biden's great-great-grandfather, documents show
Three of Robinette’s friends who were officers in the U.S. Army petitioned Lincoln directly to overturn Robinette’s sentence.
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Three of Robinette’s friends who were officers in the U.S. Army petitioned Lincoln directly to overturn Robinette’s sentence.
“We were aristocrats”
President Biden's great-great-grandfather received a pardon from President Lincoln, according to newly discovered documents in the National Archives. Biden's relative in the incident, Moses J. Robinette, got into a fight with another Union Army civilian employee while camped along the Rappahannock River near Beverly Ford, Virginia, as the Civil War raged on March 12, 1864,
President Lincoln once pardoned President Biden's great-great-grandfather for attempted murder during the Civil War, documents show.
Moses Robinette was convicted in a civil war-era brawl – but Biden’s predecessor gave him a reprieve