Educated at Princeton, Yale, and Union College. Graduated from Union in 1819 with a Bachelor of Arts. Obtained his liscense to practice law January 3, 1824. Elected to his first term in the House of the Kentucky Legislature November of 1825, and re-elected three more times before leaving public office due to personal difficulties.
In 1830, after a conversion of faith and joining the Presbyterian Church, he became a politcal/social speaker, arguing against the enslavement of Africans. He became liscensed to preach April 5, 1832, and was ordained in November of 1832. He was awarded an honorary Master of Arts from Princeton the same year. He became president of Jefferson College in Pennsylvania in 1845, a position he left in 1847 to pastor the First Presbyterian Church of Lexington, Kentucky. His last vocational move was to become the first Professor of Exegetic, Didactic, and Polemic Theology in the Presbyterian seminary at Danville, Kentucky.
During the Civil War, he helped establish the Danville Review, supporting the Union, and served as Lincoln's advisor in Kentucky.∼aged 72 years
source: History of Baltimore City & County, Necrology
Educated at Princeton, Yale, and Union College. Graduated from Union in 1819 with a Bachelor of Arts. Obtained his liscense to practice law January 3, 1824. Elected to his first term in the House of the Kentucky Legislature November of 1825, and re-elected three more times before leaving public office due to personal difficulties.
In 1830, after a conversion of faith and joining the Presbyterian Church, he became a politcal/social speaker, arguing against the enslavement of Africans. He became liscensed to preach April 5, 1832, and was ordained in November of 1832. He was awarded an honorary Master of Arts from Princeton the same year. He became president of Jefferson College in Pennsylvania in 1845, a position he left in 1847 to pastor the First Presbyterian Church of Lexington, Kentucky. His last vocational move was to become the first Professor of Exegetic, Didactic, and Polemic Theology in the Presbyterian seminary at Danville, Kentucky.
During the Civil War, he helped establish the Danville Review, supporting the Union, and served as Lincoln's advisor in Kentucky.∼aged 72 years
source: History of Baltimore City & County, Necrology
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Sophonisba Preston "Sophy" Breckinridge Steele
1829–1880
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Mary Cabell Breckinridge Warfield
1829–1902
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Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr
1833–1915
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William Campbell Preston Breckinridge
1837–1904
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MG Joseph Cabell Breckinridge
1842–1920
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1LT Charles Henry Breckinridge
1844–1867
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John Robert Breckinridge
1850–1874
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