Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.

Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. was a Kentucky politician and a member of the Breckenridge political family.

Life

He was the son of Robert Jefferson Breckinridge and brother of William Campbell Preston Breckinridge. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He served as a colonel in the Confederate Army in the Civil War. He later represented Kentucky in the First Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1864. After the war he served as a judge. He married Katharine Morrison in 1856.