John Breckinridge was an American politician, militia officer, planter, and lawyer. He served several terms in the state legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky before being elected to the United States
Posthumous portrait by Alban Jasper Conant, c. 1863
Mary Hopkins ("Polly") Cabell Breckinridge
Humphrey Marshall defeated Breckinridge for a Senate seat in 1794.
Thomas Jefferson composed the original Kentucky Resolutions.
Cabell Breckinridge
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Joseph Cabell Breckinridge was an American lawyer, soldier, slaveholder and politician in Kentucky. From 1816 to 1819, he represented Fayette County in the Kentucky House of Representatives, and fello
John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General)
…1.6-km2) plantation in Albemarle County dubbed "The Glebe". Nine children were born to the John and Polly Breckinridge – Letitia Preston (1786–1831), Joseph "Cabell" (1788–1823), Mary Hopkins (1790–1793), Robert Wright (1792–1870), Mary Ann (1795–1817), John (1797–1841), Robert Jefferson (1800–1871), William Lewis…
John Adair appointed Breckinridge Secretary of State in 1820.