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These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
This specific family group is a subset of the
much larger Four Thousand
Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed
with more than one subset.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
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not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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John Brown (1757-1837) —
of Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born in Staunton,
Va., September
12, 1757.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state senate, 1784-88; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1787-88; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1789-92 (at-large 1789-91, 2nd
District 1791-92); U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1792-1805.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., August
29, 1837 (age 79 years, 351
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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John Breckinridge (1760-1806) —
of Kentucky.
Born near Staunton, Augusta
County, Va., December
2, 1760.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1793-94; Kentucky
state attorney general, 1793-97; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1798-1801; Speaker of
the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1799-1801; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1799; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1801-05; U.S.
Attorney General, 1805-06; died in office 1806.
Presbyterian.
Slaveowner.
Died, from a stomach
infection, in near Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., December
14, 1806 (age 46 years, 12
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Fayette County, Ky.; reinterment at
Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Breckenridge and Letitia 'Lettice' (Preston) Breckenridge;
half-brother of Robert
Breckinridge; brother of James
Breckinridge; married, June 28,
1785, to Mary Hopkins Cabell; father of Letitia Preston
Breckinridge (who married Peter
Buell Porter and Alfred
William Grayson), Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge and Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge; nephew of William
Preston; uncle of James
Douglas Breckinridge; grandfather of John
Cabell Breckinridge (who married Mary
Cyrene Burch), Mary Cabell Breckinridge (who married Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864)), Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; great-grandfather of Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge, Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; second great-grandfather of John
Bayne Breckinridge; cousin *** of John
Brown and James
Brown; first cousin of Francis
Smith Preston and James
Patton Preston; first cousin once removed of William
Campbell Preston, James
McDowell, John
Buchanan Floyd, John
Smith Preston and George
Rogers Clark Floyd. |
| | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Breckinridge
County, Ky. is named for him. |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Breckinridge (1763-1833) —
of Virginia.
Born near Fincastle, Botetourt
County, Va., March 7,
1763.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1789-1802, 1806-08, 1819-21, 1823-24;
U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1809-17 (4th District 1809-11, 5th
District 1811-13, 4th District 1813-15, 5th District 1815-17);
general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812.
Slaveowner.
Died in Botetourt
County, Va., May 13,
1833 (age 70 years, 67
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Botetourt County, Va.
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Francis Smith Preston (1765-1836) —
also known as Francis Preston —
of Virginia.
Born in Greenfield, Botetourt
County, Va., August
2, 1765.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state senate, 1788-89, 1816-20; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 5th District, 1793-97; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1812-14; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812.
Slaveowner.
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., May 26,
1836 (age 70 years, 298
days).
Interment at Aspenvale
Cemetery, Seven Mile Ford, Va.
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James Brown (1766-1835) —
of Kentucky; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born near Staunton, Augusta
County, Va., September
11, 1766.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1791; secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1792-96; secretary
of Orleans Territory, 1804; U.S.
Attorney for Louisiana, 1805-08; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1813-17, 1819-23; resigned 1823; U.S.
Minister to France, 1823-29.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April 7,
1835 (age 68 years, 208
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Jesse Bledsoe (1776-1836) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., April 6,
1776.
Democrat. Secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1808-12; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1812; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1813-14; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1817-20; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Kentucky; state court judge in Kentucky, 1822.
Disciples
of Christ.
Slaveowner.
Died near Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches
County, Tex., June 25,
1836 (age 60 years, 80
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor (1793-1874) —
also known as Robert E. B. Baylor —
Born in Lincoln
County, Ky., May 10,
1793.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of
Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1819-20; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1824; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 2nd District, 1829-31; judge of Texas
Republic, 1841-45; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; district judge in
Texas, 1845-60.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
One of the founders,
in 1845, of Baylor University, and of Baylor Female College (now the
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor).
Slaveowner.
Died in Gay Hill, Washington
County, Tex., January
6, 1874 (age 80 years, 241
days).
Original interment at Old
Baylor University Campus, Independence, Tex.; reinterment in 1886
at University
of Mary Hardin-Baylor Campus, Belton, Tex.
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Mason Brown (1799-1867) —
of Maysville, Mason
County, Ky.; Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
10, 1799.
Democrat. Lawyer;
circuit judge in Kentucky, 1839-49; secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1855-59; Kentucky
state treasurer, 1865-67.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., January
27, 1867 (age 67 years, 78
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Benjamin Gratz Brown (1826-1885) —
also known as B. Gratz Brown; "Boozy
Gratz" —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., May 28,
1826.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1852-58; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Missouri, 1860;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1863-67; Governor of
Missouri, 1871-73; Democratic candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1872.
Died in Kirkwood, St. Louis
County, Mo., December
13, 1885 (age 59 years, 199
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Kirkwood, Mo.
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Emily Todd Helm (1836-1930) —
also known as Emily T. Helm; Emilie Pariet
Todd —
of Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., November
11, 1836.
Her husband was offered a position as paymaster of the Union Army,
but chose to become a Confederate general, and was killed at the
Battle of Chickamauga in 1863; she was granted safe passage to come
to the White House and stay with President Abraham
Lincoln and his family, despite harsh criticism in the Northern
press for harboring a Confederate; postmaster at Elizabethtown,
Ky., 1883-96.
Female.
Member, United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Died in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., February
20, 1930 (age 93 years, 101
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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