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font-family:garamond,serif;">Breckinridge</p> <table width=100%><tr><td valign="top"> <a name="BRECKINRIDGE"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BRECKINRIDGE</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B625">Soundex B625</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beckham-bedel.html#BECKINELLA">BECKINELLA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyles-bradburn.html#BRACKENRIDGE">BRACKENRIDGE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bragaw-brancato.html#BRAKENRIDGE">BRAKENRIDGE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#BRECINRIDGE">BRECINRIDGE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#BRECK">BRECK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brayman-breckenridge.html#BRECKENRIDGE">BRECKENRIDGE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckons-breedon.html#BRECKMANN">BRECKMANN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckons-breedon.html#BRECKON">BRECKON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckons-breedon.html#BRECKONS">BRECKONS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckrop-buel.html#BUECKING">BUECKING</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#GRECKI">GRECKI</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jamieson-jarstad.html#JARECKI">JARECKI</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kinnison-kipp.html#KINROSS">KINROSS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leavy-ledyard.html#LECKINGTON">LECKINGTON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mara-margolis.html#MARECKI">MARECKI</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reade-rector.html#RECKIN">RECKIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sparling-spellman.html#SPECKING">SPECKING</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/yatron-yontes.html#YECKINEVICH">YECKINEVICH</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>BRECKINRIDGE:</b> <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/archibald-armstead.html#611.83.93">William Breckinridge Ardery</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#112.83.72">Joseph Breckinridge Board Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/long.html#764.36.52">Samuel Miller Breckinridge Long</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayne-mcallen.html#424.58.54">Robert Breckinridge McAfee</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parkhill-parkman.html#889.14.42">Charles Breckinridge Parkhill</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/willauer-william.html#694.85.92">Breckinridge L. Willcox</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="523.97.33">Breckinridge, Arthur Gates</a> (1864-1940)</b> — also known as <b>Arthur G. Breckinridge</b> — of Binghamton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BO-lived.html">Broome County</a>, N.Y.; Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Colorado Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/EP-lived.html">El Paso County</a>, Colo. Born in Binghamton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BO-born.html">Broome County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/08-06.html">August 6, 1864</a>. Socialist. Candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 34th District, 1918, 1920, 1922; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Kings County 21st District, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 6th District, 1930. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Died in Colorado Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/EP-died.html">El Paso County</a>, Colo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/05-10.html">May 10, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 278 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BO-buried.html#cms01197">Spring Forest Cemetery</a>, Binghamton, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Lucy Ann (Gates) Breckinridge and Henry Adkins Breckinridge; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/02-11.html">February 11, 1889</a>, to Effie Edith Noxon.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/84102642">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Breckinridge, Cabell</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="491.75.04">Breckinridge, Carl</a></b> — of Turney, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CL-lived.html">Clinton County</a>, Mo. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/sthse.html">Missouri state house of representatives</a> from Clinton County, 1935-38. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="012.23.21">Breckinridge, Christopher G.</a></b> — of Baton Rouge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/EB-lived.html">East Baton Rouge Parish</a>, La. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/eastbatonrouge-parish.html#3">Baton Rouge, La.</a>, 1865-68. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="179.74.78">Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes</a> (1846-1932)</b> — also known as <b>Clifton R. Breckinridge</b> — of Pine Bluff, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ark.; Fort Smith, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/SB-lived.html">Sebastian County</a>, Ark. Born in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/11-22.html">November 22, 1846</a>. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Arkansas</a>, 1883-89, 1890-95 (at-large 1883-85, 2nd District 1885-89, 1890-95); U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-diplomats.html ">Russia</a>, 1894-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Arkansas state constitutional convention</a>, 1917. Died in Wendover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LS-died.html">Leslie County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/12-03.html">December 3, 1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 11 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a> and <a href="#313.23.20">Mary Breckinridge</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/11-21.html">November 21, 1876</a>, to Catherine B. Carson; grandson of <a href="#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge</a>; grandnephew of <a href="#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a>; great-grandson of <a href="#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#392.87.01">John Witherspoon</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#775.20.26">William Cabell</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>, <a href="#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a> and <a href="#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="#019.25.10">James Douglas Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#973.19.38">William Cabell Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#439.27.42">William Henry Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a>, <a href="#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a> and <a href="#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#038.07.47">Frederick Mortimer Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#045.17.96">Edward Carrington Cabell</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#966.21.11">John William Leftwich</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0736.html">Walker-Randolph family</a> of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000784">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401742">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/breckinridge-clifton-rodes ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7482071">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="106.90.74">Breckinridge, Daniel W.</a></b> — of Michigan. Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 8th District, 1888. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="923.46.15">Breckinridge, Desha</a> (1867-1935)</b> — of Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky. Born in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/08-05.html">August 5, 1867</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor and publisher</a>; director, the First National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a> of Lexington; director, Fayette Home <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">Telephone</a> Company; director, Phoenix <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">Hotel</a> Company; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/KY.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/KY.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/KY.html">1932</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/02-18.html">February 18, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 197 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a> and Issa (Desha) Breckinridge; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/11-17.html">November 17, 1898</a>, to Madeline McDowell; nephew of <a href="#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a>; grandson of <a href="#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a>; grandnephew of <a href="#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a>; great-grandson of <a href="#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#891.12.97">Joseph Desha</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell9.html#257.81.17">William Campbell</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#775.20.26">William Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#071.73.66">Patrick Henry</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a> and <a href="#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="#019.25.10">James Douglas Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#973.19.38">William Cabell Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#439.27.42">William Henry Cabell</a>; second cousin of <a href="#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#229.37.23">Valentine Wood Southall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#038.07.47">Frederick Mortimer Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garland.html#243.84.03">Samuel Meredith Garland (1802-1880)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#045.17.96">Edward Carrington Cabell</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#966.21.11">John William Leftwich</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#906.59.34">Stephen Valentine Southall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garland.html#630.56.44">Samuel Meredith Garland (1861-1945)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Epitaph:</i> "Our boast of you is that we found you brave."</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8884801">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="447.87.63">Breckinridge, Henry Skillman</a> (1886-1960)</b> — also known as <b>Henry Breckinridge</b>; <b>Henry Breckenridge</b> — of Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Fresh Meadows, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/05-25.html">May 25, 1886</a>. Democrat. Assistant Secretary of War, 1913-16; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; attorney for Charles A. Lindbergh, 1932; Constitutional candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1934; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/index.html">1936</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mil-ord-world-wars.html">Military Order of the World Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/navy-league.html">Navy League</a>. Died, in St. Vincent's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/05-03.html">May 3, 1960</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 344 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1842-1921) and Louise Ludlow (Dudley) Breckinridge; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/07-07.html">July 7, 1910</a>, to Ruth (Bradley) Woodman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/08-05.html">August 5, 1927</a>, to Aida (de Acosta) Root; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/03-27.html">March 27, 1947</a>, to Margaret Lucy Smith; nephew of <a href="#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a> and <a href="#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a>; grandson of <a href="#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a>; grandnephew of <a href="#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1788-1823)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a>; great-grandson of <a href="#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell9.html#257.81.17">William Campbell</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#775.20.26">William Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#071.73.66">Patrick Henry</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a> and <a href="#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="#019.25.10">James Douglas Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#973.19.38">William Cabell Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#439.27.42">William Henry Cabell</a>; second cousin of <a href="#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#229.37.23">Valentine Wood Southall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#038.07.47">Frederick Mortimer Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garland.html#243.84.03">Samuel Meredith Garland (1802-1880)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#045.17.96">Edward Carrington Cabell</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#966.21.11">John William Leftwich</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#906.59.34">Stephen Valentine Southall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garland.html#630.56.44">Samuel Meredith Garland (1861-1945)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0078.html">Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family</a> of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry S. Breckinridge">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6215905">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="223.53.09">Breckinridge, James</a> (1763-1833)</b> — of Virginia. Born near Fincastle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/BO-born.html">Botetourt County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1763/03-07.html">March 7, 1763</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1789-1802, 1806-08, 1819-21, 1823-24; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1809-17 (4th District 1809-11, 5th District 1811-13, 4th District 1813-15, 5th District 1815-17); general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/BO-died.html">Botetourt County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/05-13.html">May 13, 1833</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 67 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/BO-buried.html#cms04849">a private or family graveyard</a>, Botetourt County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Half-brother of <a href="#135.09.87">Robert Breckinridge</a>; brother of <a href="#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="#594.71.07">John Bayne Breckinridge</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#213.96.07">John Brown</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#539.98.75">James Brown</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0021.html">Brown-Breckinridge family</a> of Lexington, Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000785">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401743">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="019.25.10">Breckinridge, James Douglas</a> (1781-1849)</b> — of Kentucky. Born in Woodville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1781/index.html">1781</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1809-11; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 8th District, 1821-23; defeated, 1822. Slaveowner. Died in Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/05-06.html">May 6, 1849</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">about 67 years</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms03656">St. John's Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky.; reinterment in 1867 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms02715">St. Louis Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Alexander Breckinridge and Jane (Buchanan) Breckinridge; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#252.16.11">John Floyd</a>; married to Mary Elizabeth Grayson (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#677.82.87">Frederick William Spence Grayson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#382.50.93">Peter William Grayson</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/">1832</a> to Lucy Fry Speed; nephew of <a href="#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</a>; first cousin of <a href="#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge</a> and <a href="#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>, <a href="#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a> and <a href="#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a>, <a href="#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a>, <a href="#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a>, <a href="#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bailey5.html#031.04.24">Joseph Weldon Bailey Jr.</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0717.html">Desha-Breckinridge family</a> of Lexington, Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000786">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412019">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6867975">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="809.50.86">Breckinridge, John</a> (1760-1806)</b> — of Kentucky. Born near Staunton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AG-born.html">Augusta County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1760/12-02.html">December 2, 1760</a>. Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Kentucky</a>, 1793-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/attygn.html">Kentucky state attorney general</a>, 1793-97; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1798-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Kentucky State House of Representatives</a>, 1799-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Kentucky state constitutional convention</a>, 1799; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Kentucky</a>, 1801-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1805-06; died in office 1806. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Slaveowner. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gastrointestinal.html">stomach infection</a>, in near Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/12-14.html">December 14, 1806</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 12 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms04931">a private or family graveyard</a>, Fayette County, Ky.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Robert Breckenridge and Letitia 'Lettice' (Preston) Breckenridge; half-brother of <a href="#135.09.87">Robert Breckinridge</a>; brother of <a href="#223.53.09">James Breckinridge</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/06-28.html">June 28, 1785</a>, to Mary Hopkins Cabell; father of Letitia Preston Breckinridge (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#448.03.00">Peter Buell Porter</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#938.36.55">Alfred William Grayson</a>), <a href="#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge</a> and <a href="#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a>; uncle of <a href="#019.25.10">James Douglas Breckinridge</a>; grandfather of <a href="#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a> (who married <a href="#313.23.20">Mary Cyrene Burch</a>), Mary Cabell Breckinridge (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>), <a href="#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a> and <a href="#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a>, <a href="#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a> and <a href="#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="#594.71.07">John Bayne Breckinridge</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#213.96.07">John Brown</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#539.98.75">James Brown</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0078.html">Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family</a> of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BC.html">Breckinridge County, Ky.</a> is named for him.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000787">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401744">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Breckinridge">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6807557">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="594.71.07">Breckinridge, John Bayne</a> (1913-1979)</b> — also known as <b>John B. Breckinridge</b> — of Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/11-29.html">November 29, 1913</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a> 49th District, 1956-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/attygn.html">Kentucky state attorney general</a>, 1960-64, 1968-72; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/KY.html">1960</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1971; defeated, 1963; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 6th District, 1973-79; defeated in primary, 1978. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-ord.html">Kappa Alpha Order</a>. Died in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1979/07-29.html">July 29, 1979</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 242 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Grandnephew of <a href="#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="#223.53.09">James Breckinridge</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0717.html">Desha-Breckinridge family</a> of Lexington, Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000788">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401745">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6215887">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="923.82.77">Breckinridge, John Cabell</a> (1821-1875)</b> — also known as <b>John C. Breckinridge</b> — of Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky. Born near Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/01-16.html">January 16, 1821</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1849-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 8th District, 1851-55; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1856/KY.html">1856</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1857-61; Southern Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1860; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Kentucky</a>, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/confed.html">Confederate Secretary of War</a>, 1865. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Expelled</a> from the U.S. Senate on December 4, 1861 for his participation in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/civil-war-slavery.html">Confederate military</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/flight-escape.html">Fled</a> to Cuba at the end of the war, and lived in England and Canada until 1869. Slaveowner. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung.html">lung disease</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/liver.html">liver cirrhosis</a>, in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/05-17.html">May 17, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 121 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Mary Clay (Smith) Breckinridge and <a href="#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/">1840</a> to Elizabeth Lucas; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/12-12.html">December 12, 1843</a>, to <a href="#313.23.20">Mary Cyrene Burch</a>; father of <a href="#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a>; nephew of <a href="#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a>; grandson of <a href="#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#392.87.01">John Witherspoon</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#775.20.26">William Cabell</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>, <a href="#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a> and <a href="#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="#019.25.10">James Douglas Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a>, <a href="#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a> and <a href="#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#973.19.38">William Cabell Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#439.27.42">William Henry Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#038.07.47">Frederick Mortimer Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#045.17.96">Edward Carrington Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#966.21.11">John William Leftwich</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0736.html">Walker-Randolph family</a> of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CD-names.html">Breckenridge, Missouri</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/SU-names.html">Breckenridge, Colorado</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS John C. Breckinridge</i> (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-names.html">Savannah, Georgia</a>; scrapped 1960) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000789">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401746">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John C. Breckinridge">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/557/000050407">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/132">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://billiongraves.com/pages/record/burial/2537574">BillionGraves burial record</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4099">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about John C. Breckinridge:</i> William C. Davis, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0151005648/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0151005648&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government</a> — Frank Hopkins Heck, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813102170/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0813102170&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Proud Kentuckian, John C. Breckinridge, 1821-1875</a> — William C. Davis, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807118052/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807118052&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Breckinridge : Statesman, Soldier, Symbol</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="711.96.54">Breckinridge, John W.</a></b> — of California. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a> 5th District, 1884-85; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1884/CA.html">1884</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="446.25.19">Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell</a> (1788-1823)</b> — also known as <b>Cabell Breckinridge</b> — of Kentucky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-born.html">Albemarle County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/07-24.html">July 24, 1788</a>. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Kentucky State House of Representatives</a>, 1817-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Kentucky</a>, 1820-23; died in office 1823. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/other-diseases.html">epidemic</a>, in Frankfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-died.html">Franklin County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/09-01.html">September 1, 1823</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">35 years, 39 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms04931">a private or family graveyard</a>, Fayette County, Ky.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a> and Mary Hopkins (Cabell) Brecinridge; brother of Letitia Preston Breckinridge (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#448.03.00">Peter Buell Porter</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#938.36.55">Alfred William Grayson</a>) and <a href="#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a>; married to Mary Clay Smith; father of <a href="#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a> (who married <a href="#313.23.20">Mary Cyrene Burch</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>, <a href="#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a> and <a href="#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a>; grandfather of <a href="#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#775.20.26">William Cabell</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a>, <a href="#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a> and <a href="#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a>; first cousin of <a href="#019.25.10">James Douglas Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#973.19.38">William Cabell Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#439.27.42">William Henry Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#038.07.47">Frederick Mortimer Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#045.17.96">Edward Carrington Cabell</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#966.21.11">John William Leftwich</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0736.html">Walker-Randolph family</a> of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Epitaph:</i> "The Righteous Shall Be In Everlasting Remembrance."</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabell Breckinridge">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8872060">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=253468">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="313.23.20">Breckinridge, Mary</a> (1826-1907)</b> — also known as <b>Mary Cyrene Burch</b> — Born in Georgetown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/SC-born.html">Scott County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/08-16.html">August 16, 1826</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/second.html">Second Lady of the United States</a>, 1857-61. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Bronx, New York County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-died.html">Bronx County</a>), N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/10-08.html">October 8, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 53 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Clifton Rodes Burch and Althea (Viley) Burch; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/12-12.html">December 12, 1843</a>, to <a href="#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a> (son of <a href="#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge</a>; grandson of <a href="#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a>); mother of <a href="#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0078.html">Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family</a> of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8872592">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=34104">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="201.01.69">Breckinridge, R. J.</a></b> — of Kentucky. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/attygn.html">Kentucky state attorney general</a>, 1901-02. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="135.09.87">Breckinridge, Robert</a> (1754-1833)</b> — of Kentucky. Born in Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1754/index.html">1754</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Kentucky State House of Representatives</a>, 1792-95. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/index.html">1833</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">about 79 years</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms04833">a private or family graveyard</a>, Jefferson County, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Half-brother of <a href="#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a> and <a href="#223.53.09">James Breckinridge</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0021.html">Brown-Breckinridge family</a> of Lexington, Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="913.15.69">Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson</a> (1800-1871)</b> — of Kentucky. Born near Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/03-08.html">March 8, 1800</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1825-28; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">ordained minister</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a>, Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson College), 1845-47; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sppi.html">Kentucky superintendent of public instruction</a>, 1849-53; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Kentucky state constitutional convention</a>, 1849. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Danville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BY-died.html">Boyle County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/12-22.html">December 22, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 289 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a> and Mary Hopkins (Cabell) Breckinridge; brother of Letitia Preston Breckinridge (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#448.03.00">Peter Buell Porter</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#938.36.55">Alfred William Grayson</a>) and <a href="#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/03-11.html">March 11, 1823</a>, to Ann Sophronisba Preston; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/04-01.html">April 1, 1847</a>, to Virginia Hart Shelby; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/11-05.html">November 5, 1868</a>, to Margaret F. White; father of <a href="#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a> and <a href="#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a>; uncle of <a href="#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a>, <a href="#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a> and <a href="#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#775.20.26">William Cabell</a>; granduncle of <a href="#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>; first cousin of <a href="#019.25.10">James Douglas Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#973.19.38">William Cabell Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#439.27.42">William Henry Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#038.07.47">Frederick Mortimer Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#045.17.96">Edward Carrington Cabell</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#966.21.11">John William Leftwich</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0736.html">Walker-Randolph family</a> of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8884596">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="891.83.83">Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson, Jr.</a> (1833-1915)</b> — also known as <b>Robert J. Breckinridge, Jr.</b> — of Kentucky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-born.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/09-14.html">September 14, 1833</a>. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Kentucky secession convention</a>, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Kentucky in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1862-64; common pleas court judge in Kentucky, 1876. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/03-13.html">March 13, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 180 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a> and Ann Sophonisba (Preston) Breckinridge; brother of <a href="#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a>; nephew of <a href="#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a>, <a href="#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a> and <a href="#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a>; grandson of <a href="#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell9.html#257.81.17">William Campbell</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#775.20.26">William Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#071.73.66">Patrick Henry</a>; first cousin of <a href="#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="#019.25.10">James Douglas Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</a>, <a href="#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#973.19.38">William Cabell Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#439.27.42">William Henry Cabell</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#229.37.23">Valentine Wood Southall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#038.07.47">Frederick Mortimer Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garland.html#243.84.03">Samuel Meredith Garland (1802-1880)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#045.17.96">Edward Carrington Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#966.21.11">John William Leftwich</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#906.59.34">Stephen Valentine Southall</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garland.html#630.56.44">Samuel Meredith Garland (1861-1945)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0736.html">Walker-Randolph family</a> of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8886760">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Breckinridge, W. N.</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#283.88.20">William Norwood Breckinridge</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="685.82.03">Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston</a> (1837-1904)</b> — also known as <b>William C. P. Breckinridge</b> — of Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-born.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/08-28.html">August 28, 1837</a>. Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/KY.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/KY.html">1880</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 7th District, 1885-95; defeated (Gold Democratic), 1896. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>. In 1894, he was successfully sued for breach of promise by a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">former mistress</a>; he acknowledged the affair, affair, but the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> ended his political career. Slaveowner. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">apoplexy</a>, in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/11-18.html">November 18, 1904</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 82 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a> and Ann Sophonisba (Preston) Breckinridge; brother of <a href="#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/03-17.html">March 17, 1859</a>, to Lucretia Hart Clay (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#052.20.67">Thomas Hart Clay</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/09-19.html">September 19, 1861</a>, to Issa Desha (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#891.12.97">Joseph Desha</a>); married to Louisa Rucks (Scott) Wing; father of <a href="#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a>; nephew of <a href="#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a> and <a href="#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a>; grandson of <a href="#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>; granduncle of <a href="#594.71.07">John Bayne Breckinridge</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell9.html#257.81.17">William Campbell</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#775.20.26">William Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#071.73.66">Patrick Henry</a>; first cousin of <a href="#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="#019.25.10">James Douglas Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</a>, <a href="#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#973.19.38">William Cabell Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#439.27.42">William Henry Cabell</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#229.37.23">Valentine Wood Southall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#038.07.47">Frederick Mortimer Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garland.html#243.84.03">Samuel Meredith Garland (1802-1880)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#045.17.96">Edward Carrington Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#966.21.11">John William Leftwich</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#906.59.34">Stephen Valentine Southall</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garland.html#630.56.44">Samuel Meredith Garland (1861-1945)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0736.html">Walker-Randolph family</a> of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000790">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401747">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7397789">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="283.88.20">Breckinridge, William Norwood</a></b> — also known as <b>W. N. Breckinridge</b> — of Fincastle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/BO-lived.html">Botetourt County</a>, Va. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/VA.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/VA.html">1940</a> (alternate); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cr21.html">delegate to Virginia convention to ratify 21st amendment</a>, 1933; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/limcn1.html">delegate to Virginia limited constitutional convention</a> 20th District, 1945. 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