James D. Breckinridge

James Douglas Breckinridge (* 1781 in Louisville, Kentucky; † May 6, 1849 ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1823 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Breckinridge was a member of a known family of politicians whose namhaftestes Member John C. Breckinridge was, from 1857 to 1861 Vice President of the United States. Other members of the family held high political office at the state and federal level. Breckinridge studied 1800-1803 at Washington College, now Washington and Lee University in Lexington ( Virginia). After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Louisville to work in this profession. A 1826 was appointed Judge he refused.

Politically, Breckinridge joined the Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1809 and 1811 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. After the death of Mr Wingfield Bullock in 1821 he was at the election due in the eighth constituency of Kentucky as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 21 November 1821. Since he has not been confirmed at the regular elections of 1822, he could only finish the opened legislature of his predecessor until March 3, 1823.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, James Breckinridge withdrew from politics. Until his death in 1849, he practiced as a lawyer again.