Robert Jefferson Breckinridge was a politician and Presbyterian minister. He was a member of the Breckinridge family of Kentucky, the son of Senator John Breckinridge.
Robert Breckinridge's actions as a Kentucky Representative put him at odds with reasoning espoused by his late father, Senator John Breckinridge
Portrait of Breckinridge as President of Jefferson College
Breckinridge was appointed superintendent of public education by Governor William Owsley
Robert Breckinridge supported Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860 over his nephew, John C. Breckinridge (pictured)
Joseph Cabell Breckinridge Sr. was a Union Army officer from Kentucky during the American Civil War. In later life, he became a brigadier general in the U.S. Regular Army and Inspector General of the
