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In the Electoral College, he came in fourth behind John Bell, the candidate for the Constitutional Union Party. The man who came in second, the candidate who came closest in electoral votes to defeating Lincoln, was John C. Breckinridge, the standard-bearer of Southern Democrats. But for a split among the Democrats, Abraham Lincoln, who ...
John C. Breckinridge (1857–1861) John Cabell Breckinridge became the youngest vice president in United States history when he was elected with President James Buchanan in the 1856 election. Yet, the turbulence of the times and the American Civil War led him to become the second vice president (after Aaron Burr) to be accused of treason when ...
Breckinridge's grandfather, U.S. Attorney General John Breckinridge, influenced his political philosophy. Historian James C. Klotter has speculated that, had John C. Breckinridge's father, Cabell, lived, he would have steered his son to the Whig Party and the Union, rather than the Democratic Party and the Confederacy, but the Kentucky Secretary of State and former Speaker of the Kentucky ...
John Cabell Breckinridge was a prominent statesman and lawyer from Lexington, Kentucky. He was born into the Breckinridge political family of Kentucky and shared close family ties to the Preston political family of Virginia. Breckinridge was surrounded by politics at the local and national levels from a young age and thus decided to pursue a ...
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.
16 de mar. de 2024 · In 1869, Breckinridge returned to Kentucky where he practiced law and served as vice president of the Elizabethtown, Lexington, and Big Sandy Railroad Company. John C. Breckinridge died in Lexington, Kentucky on May 17, 1875, at age 54, from complications from cirrhosis. His final resting place is in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky.
John C. Breckinridge. General January 16, 1821 — May 17, 1875 . On December 15, 1862, Breckinridge took leave in Richmond. Premature rumors of his death prompted the New York Times to print a quite vituperative obituary arguing that Kentucky’s decision to stay in the Union denied Breckinridge the notion of states’ rights to justify his siding with the Confederacy.
