Daniel Breck

Daniel Breck ( born February 12, 1788 in Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, † February 4, 1871 in Richmond, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1851 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Breck was the younger brother of Samuel Breck (1771-1862), who was sitting 1823-1825 for the state of Pennsylvania in Congress. He attended the common schools and taught for some time after even as a teacher. Then he studied until 1812 at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). After a subsequent law degree in 1814 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Richmond in this profession. Later he became a judge at the local district court. At the same time Breck began a political career. Between 1824 and 1827, and again in 1834 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. From 1835 to 1843 Breck headed the branch of the State Bank of Kentucky in Richmond. Between 1843 and 1849 he served as an Associate Justice on the Kentucky Supreme Court

Politically, Breck joined the Whig party to. In the congressional elections of 1848 he was in the sixth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Green Adams on March 4, 1849. Until March 3, 1851, he completed a term in Congress, which was dominated by the debates on the question of slavery and the Compromise of 1850 in the run-up to the Civil War. After his time in the House of Representatives Daniel Breck returned to Richmond. There he was again head of the local branch of the State Bank. He died on February 4, 1871.

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