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John Breckinridge

1760 - 1806

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John Breckinridge (December 2, 1760 – December 14, 1806) was an American politician, militia officer, planter, and lawyer. He served several terms in the state legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky before being elected to the United States Senate. Breckinridge also served as the United States Attorney General during the second term of President Thomas Jefferson. He was the progenitor of Kentucky's Breckinridge family and the namesake of Breckinridge County, Kentucky. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Breckinridge is the 7,215th most popular politician (up from 17,532nd in 2019), the 2,643rd most popular biography from United States (up from 12,549th in 2019) and the 220th most popular American Politician.

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Among politicians, John Breckinridge ranks 7,215 out of 19,576. Before him are Jonas Gahr Støre, Suchinda Kraprayoon, James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, García Íñiguez of Pamplona, Ariston of Sparta, and Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre. After him are Archduchess Adelheid of Austria, Bagrat V of Georgia, Charles, Prince Napoléon, Mithridates II of Pontus, Hong Tianguifu, and Alexios Komnenos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, John Breckinridge ranks 18. Before him are Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, William Beckford, Oliver Wolcott Jr., August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Jan Ladislav Dussek, and Jean-François Le Sueur. After him are Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, Aloysia Weber, Olof Swartz, Johann Peter Hebel, Christian Kramp, and Constantine Ypsilantis. Among people deceased in 1806, John Breckinridge ranks 27. Before him are Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Mungo Park, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Pavel Tsitsianov, and Vicente Martín y Soler. After him are Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, George Stubbs, Federico Gravina, Horatio Gates, and Eugenios Voulgaris.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Breckinridge ranks 2,643 out of 20,380. Before him are Jenna Jameson (1974), Rick Baker (1950), Richard Williams (1942), Martin Luther King Sr. (1899), Leo McCarey (1898), and Christina Aguilera (1980). After him are Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Michael Phelps (1985), Jean Tatlock (1914), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Shirley Chisholm (1924), and John C. Calhoun (1782).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, John Breckinridge ranks 220. Before him are Henry L. Stimson (1867), George Wallace (1919), Robert Todd Lincoln (1843), Maggie Hassan (1958), Samuel Adams (1722), and Mike Pompeo (1963). After him are Shirley Chisholm (1924), John C. Calhoun (1782), Cus D'Amato (1908), Nicholas Murray Butler (1862), Kamehameha II (1797), and Ron Brown (1941).

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