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Samuel Miller Breckenridge (Saint Louis, Missouri, attorney, politician, and judge)

b. 1828-11-03 d. 1891-05-28

Saint Louis, Missouri, attorney, politician, and judge. Baltimore, Maryland, native. Son of the Reverend John Breckenridge and Margaret Breckinridge. Educated at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and the College of New Jersey in Princeton, New Jersey. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1846. Practiced law in Lexington. Relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the state of Missouri from 1854 to 1855. Judge of the St. Louis Circuit Court in 1859. Member of the State Convention of Missouri from 1861 to 1863.

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Bibliography

Stewart, A.J.D., ed., The History of the Bench and Bar of Missouri (St. Louis, MO: The Legal Publishing Commpany, 1898), 122, https://books.google.com/books?id=eXomAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA122&dq=judge+breckenridge+st.+louis,+missouri&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju56znmNfVAhUHWCYKHTpLB3YQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=judge%20breckenridge%20st.%20louis%2C%20missouri&f=false (accessed 14 Aug 2017). "Judge Breckinridge's Career: He was an Anti-Secessionist at the Time of the War," New York Times (New York, N.Y.), May 29, 1891.

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Breckenridge, Samuel Miller. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203818 (November 12, 2026).

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