On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

That would make the 14th Vice President John C. Breckinridge the youngest because he was 36 years old at the time of being sworn in.

In 1865, congressional opposition likewise caused Seddon to withdraw, and he was replaced by John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky.

Douglas was accompanied at the meeting by Atchison, Hunter, Phillips and John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky.

The conference is also notable in American history because one of the U. S. representatives was social worker and educator, Dr. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge ( 1866-1948 ).

Clay's influence in Kentucky state politics was quickly such that in 1806 the Kentucky legislature elected him to the Senate seat of John Breckinridge.

Cromwell was mentioned in Gore Vidal's satirical novel Myra Breckinridge ( 1968 ) as " the late Richard Cromwell, so satisfyingly tortured in Lives of a Bengal Lancer.

It was directed by Mary Marvin Breckinridge, and featured her cousin, Mary Breckinridge, who was a nurse-midwife and founded the Frontier Nursing Service.

John Cabell Breckinridge ( January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875 ) was an American lawyer and politician.

A member of the prominent Breckinridge family of Kentucky, John C. Breckinridge was the grandson of John Breckinridge ( 1760 – 1806 ), who served as a Senator and Attorney General.

He was also the father of congressman and diplomat Clifton Rodes Breckinridge and the great-grandfather of actor John Cabell " Bunny " Breckinridge.

Breckinridge was born at Cabell's Dale near Lexington, Kentucky, to Joseph Cabell Breckinridge and Mary Clay Smith ( daughter of Samuel Stanhope Smith ).

In 1847 and 1848, during the Mexican – American War, Breckinridge was a major of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteers, but saw no action.

Breckinridge was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1849 – 1851 as a Democrat.

Breckinridge was an unsuccessful candidate for president in the 1860 election.

Furthermore, Breckinridge felt that Bragg was unfair in his treatment of Kentucky troops in Confederate service, such as the Orphan Brigade.

For his part, Bragg despised Breckinridge and tried to undermine his career with accusations that he was a drunkard.

Breckinridge was devastated by the disaster ; he lost nearly one-third of his Kentucky troops, primarily the Orphan Brigade.

Breckinridge already sold the geese to the Alpha Inn, and the other goose with a black bar on its tail found its way to Henry Baker as his Christmas fowl.

Although the party did not get 50 % of the popular vote in any state, they won the electoral votes of three states, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, largely due to the split in Democratic votes between Stephen A. Douglas in the North and John C. Breckinridge in the South.

The change in tone and partisanship in the Democratic Review that Breckinridge referred to was mostly a reaction by the increasingly divided Democratic Party to the growth of the Free Soil movement, which threatened to dissolve any semblance of Democratic unity that remained.

John Breckinridge, Garrard's long-time political nemesis, tried to goad Garrard into making another impassioned plea for emancipation of slaves, which was a minority position in the state, but Garrard recognized Breckinridge's tactics and refused to express any bold emancipationist sentiments during the campaign.

National Products, a small factory at the corner of Breckinridge Street and Baxter Avenue, produces more disco balls than any other factory in the world.

In the general election, Johnson reluctantly supported John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky, the candidate of most Southern Democrats.

* November 6 – U. S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln beats John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.

He was later declared the winner of the election and Breckinridge was unseated and the seat declared vacant.

In the presidential campaign of 1860 he supported John C. Breckinridge, and on December 22, soon after the election of Abraham Lincoln, sent a telegram to Georgia that asserted that " secession by the 4th of March next should be thundered forth from the ballot-box by the united voice of Georgia.

Though Abraham Lincoln was not on the ballot in the area for the 1860 Presidential election, residents of Lewisville ( listed as " Hollforts " on election results ) still gave John C. Breckinridge only a 44 – 31 majority over a fusion option.

The secretary of state certified Garrard's election, though Attorney General John Breckinridge questioned the legality of the second vote and Logan formally protested it.

He had disputed the election results of a Congressional race with Clifton R. Breckinridge, a Democrat.

* score = 1 an antisecessionist Breckinridge supporter in 1860 election

The state largely opposed Lincoln's election in 1860 and had voted for the Southern Democratic candidate John C. Breckinridge.

A group of legislators, led by John C. Breckinridge, pointed out that the Kentucky Constitution provided only that the lieutenant governor would serve as governor until a new gubernatorial election was held and a qualified successor was chosen.

In the 1860 presidential election, the Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln, but the divide among Democrats led to the nomination of two candidates: John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky represented Southern Democrats, and Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois represented Northern Democrats.

In 1860, aged and infirm, he attended the Democratic National Convention in Charleston, South Carolina, as an anti-Douglas Delegate, instead supporting John C. Breckinridge in the U. S. presidential election.

Lane was nominated for Vice President by the pro-slavery southern wing of the Democratic Party Party in 1860 alongside Presidential candidate John C. Breckinridge, the most ardently pro-slavery candidate in the election.

If he had not been before, he was certainly now a national figure — a figure making it clear that secession would follow anything other than a Breckinridge election.

Clifton R. Breckinridge ( D ), until September 5, 1890, ( lost election contest, but winner died )

* November 6, 1860: U. S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln beat John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell.

He ascended to the United States Senate to fill the seat vacated when John Breckinridge resigned to become Attorney General of the United States, but failed to win a full term in the subsequent election due to his implication in the Burr conspiracy.

He was a presidential elector in the 1860 presidential election on the Democratic ticket for John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane.

Logan protested Garrard's election to state attorney general John Breckinridge and the state senate, but both claimed they had no constitutional power to intervene.

Although he did not believe Garrard had personally done anything wrong, Logan formally protested the outcome of the election to Kentucky Attorney General John Breckinridge.

Although he did not retain outgoing Attorney General John Breckinridge, who had sided with Logan in the disputed gubernatorial election, Garrard still frequently consulted with him on complex legal questions.

* John Breckinridge of Kentucky – 1860 election