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  1. 2 days ago · John C. Breckinridge was a Kentucky lawyer, politician, and soldier who served as the 14th vice president of the United States and the Confederate secretary of war. He ran for president in 1860 as a Southern Democrat and fought in the American Civil War on both sides.

  2. 6 days ago · In 1860 the serving vice president and defeated Democratic Party candidate, John C. Breckinridge, had to concede victory to the Republican Party candidate, Abraham Lincoln. No one wants to see anything similar to the sequence of events that followed that election and led to the American Civil War.

  3. Oct 27, 2024 · Major General John C. Breckinridge. After graduating from Centre College, Breckinridge studied law at Transylvania University and fought in the Mexican War. Active in the Democratic party, he served in the legislature, U.S. Congress, and was Pres. James Buchanan's Vice-President.

  4. 1 day ago · With President Buchanan's support, Southern Democrats held their own convention, nominating Vice President John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky. The 1860 Constitutional Union Convention, which hoped to avoid the slavery issue entirely, nominated a ticket led by former Tennessee Senator John Bell.

  5. Oct 22, 2024 · On May 15, 1864, Union forces under Franz Sigel clashed with Confederates under former Vice President of the United States John C. Breckinridge deep in the S...

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  7. 6 days ago · John C. Breckinridge, a former U.S. senator and representative from Kentucky with ties to Douglas, received the vice presidential nomination. Republicans rallied around John C. Frémont, a U.S. senator from California, with William L. Dayton, a former U.S. senator from New Jersey as his running mate.