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Breckinridge, John Cabell

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Breckinridge, John Cabell (1821–1875)

US politician and soldier. In 1849 he became a Democratic member of the Kentucky legislature, and sat in Congress 1851–55. In 1856 he was elected vice-president under James Buchanan. He subsequently joined the Confederate forces and was made major-general 1862. Towards the close of the Civil War he became secretary of war to the Confederates. When the war ended, he took refuge in Europe, but in 1869 resumed his law practice in Kentucky.



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