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John Cabell Breckinridge

John Cabell Breckinridge, the fourteenth vice president of the United States, sits for a portrait around 1859. During the Civil War the Kentucky politician became a major general and secretary of war of the Confederate States.

Original Author: Julian Vannerson

Created: ca. 1859

Medium: Photographic print on salted paper

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division

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