Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Jr.

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1833-09-14

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1915-03-13

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"Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Jr." in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000849, (accessed June 8, 2024).

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A Kentucky attorney, soldier, and politician. Educated at Centre College and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1852/3. Served with the United States Coast Survey until 1854. Studied law in Danville, Kentucky, and at Transylvania University, graduating in 1856. Admitted to the bar and practiced law in St. Louis, Missouri and Lexington, Kentucky. Married twice, first to Kate D. Morrison Breckinridge, and a second time to Lilla A. Morrison Breckinridge. Father of Robert Breckinridge and Morrison Breckinridge. Member of the Democratic Party. Canvassed for John C. Breckinridge in the 1860 presidential election. Recruited and served as a private and captain in the Second Kentucky Infantry of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1862. Served the Eleventh Congressional District as a member of the First Confederate Congress in the House of Representatives from 1862 to 1863. Re-entered the service as a colonel in the Confederate cavalry. Captured and made a prisoner of war at the Ohio Penitentiary and Johnson’s Island until the close of the war. Settled near Stanford, Kentucky and returned to the practice of law.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No 2, p. 48.
Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 31-32.
Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 24.
H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 511-512.
“Robert J. Breckinridge, Jr.,” (http://www.findagrave.com/8886760) (accessed January 20, 2017).
“Robert J. Breckinridge Dies at Danville Home,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), March 14, 1915.

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