V.P. John Cabell Breckinridge

1821 - 1875  (54 years)

• Name	John Cabell Breckinridge  [1, 2]
  Title	V.P.
  Born	16 Jan 1821	Cabell's Dale, Fayette, Kentucky, USA   [3, 4, 5]
  	Exact location unknown
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1860  [5]
  	Vice President of the U.S.
  Residence	1860	Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA   [5]
  Burial	1875	Lexington Cem, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA   [6]
  Buried	1875	Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA   [6]
  Died	17 May 1875	Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA   [4]
  Person ID	I714	mytree
  Last Modified	20 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Joseph Cabell Breckinridge,   b. 24 Jul 1788,   d. 1 Sep 1823  (Age 35 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Clay Smith,   b. 31 Aug 1787, New Jersey, USA ,   d. 9 Oct 1864  (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	11 May 1811  [7]
  Notes	Her father, Dr. Smith, was President of Princeton College.
  Family ID	F384	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Cryene Burch,   b. 16 Aug 1826, Kentucky, USA ,   d. 8 Oct 1907  (Age 81 years)
  Married	12 Dec 1843
  Notes	Miss Burch was from Scott Co., Kentucky.
  Children	1. J. Cabell Breckinridge,   b. 1844, Kentucky, USA  [natural] + 2. Clifton Rodes Breckinridge,   b. 22 Nov 1846, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA ,   d. 3 Dec 1932, Wendover, Leslie, Kentucky, USA  (Age 86 years)  [natural]   3. Frances Breckinridge,   b. 1849, Kentucky, USA  [natural]   4. John Witherspoon Owen Breckinridge,   b. 22 Dec 1850, Kentucky, USA ,   d. 9 May 1892, Merced, Merced, California, USA  (Age 41 years)  [natural]   5. Mary D. Breckinridge,   b. 1854, Kentucky, USA  [natural]
  Last Modified	20 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F436	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 16 Jan 1821 - Cabell's Dale, Fayette, Kentucky, USA Residence - 1860 - Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA Burial - 1875 - Lexington Cem, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA Buried - 1875 - Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA Died - 17 May 1875 - Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  1860 US Census - Lexington, Fayette, KY (p555)

  
  

• Notes

  John Cabell Breckinridge served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky and was the 14th Vice President of the United States (under James Buchanan), to date the youngest vice president in U.S. history, inaugurated at age 36. In the 1860 presidential election, he ran as one of two candidates of the fractured Democratic Party, representing Southern Democrats. Breckinridge came in third place in the popular vote, behind winner Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, and Stephen Douglas, a Northern Democrat, but finished second in the Electoral College vote. Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, he served in the Confederate States Army as a general and commander of Confederate forces prior to the 1863 Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, and of the young Virginia Military Institute cadets, at the 1864 Battle of New Market in Lexington, Virginia. He also served as the fifth and final Confederate Secretary of War.

  
  

• Sources

  [S94] Melissa Ward (sarafina@delcarsdungeon.com), Papers left to her grandson, CHL III. [S109] Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer, General G. Moxley Sorrel, (Name: Morningside Bookshop;), Page 206. [S50] Dinwiddie Papers, Vol. 2. Pedigree #2073. [S74] Internet, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Breckinridge. [S188] 1860 United States Federal Census, (Name: National Archives and Records Administration;), Year: 1860; Census Place: Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky; Roll: ; Page: 555; Image: 555. J. C. Breckinridge, M. C., J. Cable, Clifton R., Francis, Owen, Mary D. [S57] Find A Grave. [S86] Louis Salesse.