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John Cabell Breckinridge was a Congressman from Kentucky. He later became the 14th Vice President of the United States with President James Buchanan. He is still the youngest man to ever the Vice President of the United States. Afterward, he served in the Senate and was serving when the Civil War broke out and left the United States in order to join the Confederate Army, where he was appointed as the Confederate Secretary of War.

As a state representative for Kentucky, he held the platform against interfering with slavery. Apparently, he urged the Confederate President Jefferson Davis to surrender as he could see there was no way they would win. He later left the country and lived abroad for three years before returning after President Andrew Johnson granted amnesty to former Confederates.