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    John Cabell Breckinridge (January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875) was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier. He represented Kentucky in both houses of Congress...
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    John Breckinridge (December 2, 1760 – December 14, 1806) was an American lawyer, slave-owning planter, soldier, and politician in Virginia and Kentucky...
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    The political career of John C. Breckinridge included service in the state government of Kentucky, the Federal government of the United States, as well...
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    member of the prominent Breckinridge family, the son of Vice President of the United States and Confederate General John C. Breckinridge and the great-grandson...
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    Attorney General John Breckinridge (and the great-grandchild of both U.S. Vice President and Confederate general John C. Breckinridge and Wells Fargo Bank...
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    Southern Democrats held their own convention, nominating Vice President John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky. The 1860 Constitutional Union Convention, which hoped...
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    Breckinridge political family: grandson of Senator John Breckinridge, and first cousin of Vice President John C. Breckinridge. William Breckinridge was...
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    1849 by William A. Petersen, a German tailor. Future Vice-President John C. Breckinridge, a friend of the Lincoln family, rented this house in 1852. It served...
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    ballots after Douglas' resignation. He was joined on the ticket by John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky in order to maintain regional proportional representation...
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    Mary Cyrene Breckinridge (née Burch; August 16, 1826 – October 8, 1907) was the wife of John C. Breckinridge and served as the second lady of the United...
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  • John Breckinridge or Breckenridge may refer to: John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General) (1760–1806), U.S. Senator and U.S. Attorney General John C. Breckinridge...
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  • Walker, Judah P. Benjamin, George W. Randolph, James Seddon, and John C. Breckinridge. Stephen Mallory was Confederate Secretary of the Navy throughout...
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    presidential election and the possible election of a Southerner, John C. Breckinridge to the Presidency. In August 1861, The New York Times described the...
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    First inauguration of Abraham Lincoln (category 1861 in Washington, D.C.)
    office was administered to Lincoln by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. John C. Breckinridge became the first outgoing vice president to administer the vice-presidential...
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  • John Witherspoon "Owen" Breckinridge (December 22, 1850 – May 9, 1892) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the California State Assembly...
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    The John C. Breckinridge Memorial, originally on the courthouse lawn of Lexington, Kentucky, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on...
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    William J. Hardee (divisions of major generals John C. Breckinridge, Patrick R. Cleburne, and John P. McCown) and Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk (divisions...
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    position ended in May 1865 when the Confederacy collapsed during John C. Breckinridge's tenure of the office. Answerable to the president, the secretary...
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  • recruited from Kentucky during the war. Its original commander was John C. Breckinridge, former United States vice president, and Kentucky's former senator...
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    an organized combat unit. During the battle Confederate general John C. Breckinridge ordered cadets from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), some of...
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    party split—Douglas was nominated by the North and Vice President John C. Breckinridge was nominated by the South—and the Republican Party nominee Abraham...
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  • son of John C. Breckinridge Desha Breckinridge (1867–1935), editor and publisher of the Lexington Herald, husband of Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and brother...
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  • 1860 election, he supported Abraham Lincoln against his own nephew, John C. Breckinridge, and continued to back his policies, making a famous speech that...
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  • 1809–1817. Brother of John Breckinridge, Son of Robert Breckinridge and Letitia Preston. Letitia Breckinridge, Daughter of John Breckinridge. Married first to...
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    Sciota USS Kineo USS Essex Breckinridge's Corps: Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge First Division: Brig. Gen. Charles Clark (w&c); Col. Walter S. Statham 1st...
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    are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of...
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    Following King's death, the office of vice president was vacant until John C. Breckinridge was inaugurated with President James Buchanan in March 1857. Engraving...
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    retired from public life to his plantation and was succeeded by John C. Breckinridge. His service of more than twenty-four months as Secretary made him...
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    Representative Abraham Lincoln of Illinois defeated Democratic Vice President John C. Breckinridge (who became the first incumbent vice president to lose a presidential...
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    President Zachary Taylor) Joseph Wheeler (Georgia) – Lieutenant-General John C. Breckinridge (Kentucky) – Major-General & Secretary of War Richard H. Anderson...
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