Description
From the library of Vice President John C. Breckinridge, Acts Passed At The First Session Of The Twenty-Eighth General Assembly For The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 1819, by Gabriel Slaughter.
Octavo, [2], [805] – 1000pp. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine over red label. Library binding, but free of stamps or other library markings. Dampstain along gutter, no impact to text. Occasional toning and spotting throughout. New endpapers, solid text block. (Shoemaker, 1844)
Signed by John C. Breckinridge on the title page.
John C. Breckinridge (1821-1875) served as the 14th Vice President of the United States under President James Buchanan from 1857 to 1861. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the youngest-ever vice president at age 36. In the 1860 presidential election, he ran as the Southern Democratic candidate and finished second in electoral votes behind Abraham Lincoln. After the outbreak of the Civil War, Breckinridge joined the Confederate Army, eventually rising to the rank of major general. In 1865, he served as the Confederate Secretary of War. Following the Confederacy’s defeat, he fled to Cuba and later lived in Canada and Europe before returning to the United States in 1869. He died on May 17, 1875, in Lexington, Kentucky.
