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May 29, 2018 · Breckinridge, John Cabell (1821–75) US vice president (1857–61). He was a major in the Mexican War and a congressman (1851), before being elected vice president under James Buchanan. Defeated as a pro-slavery presidential candidate in 1860 by Abraham Lincoln, he became a Confederate general and secretary of war in Jefferson Davis' cabinet ...
Aug 11, 2023 · APUSH Definition — John C Breckinridge (1821–1875) was an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He was Vice President to James Buchanan and joined the Confederacy when the Civil War started. He is perhaps most well-known for being the youngest person elected vice president. John C. Breckinridge fled the United States to ...
John Breckinridge (born Dec. 2, 1760, Staunton, Va.—died Dec. 14, 1806, Lexington, Ky., U.S.) was a Kentucky politician who sponsored Thomas Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolutions, which, like James Madison’s Virginia Resolutions, advocated a states’ rights view of the Union. Breckinridge grew up on the Virginia frontier but nonetheless ...
John C. Breckinridge's last major battle was fought on September 19, 1864, Third Winchester. Following the Confederate defeat, Breckinridge was ordered by the Confederate War Department to take command of the new Department of Western Virginia and East Tennessee, he was to leave the majority of his forces in the Valley with Early.
May 13, 2024 · Michael Levy. U.S. presidential election of 1860, American election in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. After Lincoln’s election seven Southern states seceded, setting the stage for the American Civil War.
Most of the Breckinridge’s adhered to the new party, but at about this time young John C. Breckinridge began to find Democratic ideas more persuasive. When he finished reading law, Breckinridge spent a year at Lexington’s Transylvania University, and graduated in 1841 with an LL.B. degree and an almost perfect academic record.
Apr 27, 2022 · A member of the prominent Breckinridge family of Kentucky, John C. Breckinridge was the grandson of John Breckinridge (1760–1806), who served as a Senator and Attorney General. He was also the father of congressman and diplomat Clifton Rodes Breckinridge and the great-grandfather of actor John Cabell "Bunny" Breckinridge.
