John B. Breckinridge

John Bayne Breckinridge (born 29 November 1913 in Washington DC; † July 29, 1979 in Lexington, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1973 and 1979 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Breckinridge came from an illustrious family of politicians; their namhaftestes member was his great-great grandfather John C. Breckinridge, who was 1857-1861 Vice President of the United States. He attended the public schools in Lexington. Until 1937 he studied at the University of Kentucky. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and his 1940 was admitted to the bar he began to practice in his new profession in Lexington. From 1940 to 1941 Breckinridge worked as a lawyer for the Federal Ministry of Justice.

During the Second World War, he served 1941-1946 as an officer in the United States Army. He brought it up to lieutenant colonel. Between 1946 and 1972 he worked as a lawyer again. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1956 and 1960 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. From 1960-1964 and again 1968-1972 he was Attorney General of Kentucky. From 1960 to 1964 he was also a member of a commission for the unification of the laws of various states. In July 1960, Breckinridge delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, was nominated on the John F. Kennedy as the presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1972, he was elected in the sixth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William P. Curlin on January 3, 1973. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1979 three legislative periods. In this period, the Watergate affair fell. For the elections of 1978 Breckinridge was not nominated by his party. After that he worked until his death on July 29, 1979 again as a lawyer.