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Vice President John C. Breckinridge IMPORTANT RARE DAG
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One of a kind 1/6 daguerreotype of Vice President John C. Breckenridge. Ided on back. This image has been in my collection for several years and truly is a museum piece. Originally bought from a dealer in Quincy Mass with a dag of John Quincy Adams. The contrast depth and reflective quality is good but it does have scratches and brush marks. Dag was professionally resealed in 2004. Housed in a full case with embossed eagle on pillow. The last picture is from the Library of Congress of an older John C. Breckinridge. Best of all this item is offered with no reserve! Below is from the library of congress web site.
BRECKINRIDGE, John Cabell , (grandson of John Breckinridge, father of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, and cousin of Henry Donnel Foster), a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky and a Vice President of the United States; born at 'Cabell's Dale,' near Lexington, Ky., January 16, 1821; attended Pisgah Academy, Woodford County, Ky.; was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1839; later attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University); studied law in the Transylvania Institute, Lexington, Ky.; was admitted to the bar in 1840; moved to Burlington, Iowa, but soon returned and began practice in Lexington, Ky.; major of the Third Kentucky Volunteers during the Mexican War in 1847 and 1848; member, State house of representatives 1849; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); was not a candidate for renomination in 1854; was tendered the mission to Spain by President Franklin Pierce, but declined; elected Vice President of the United States in 1856 on the Democratic ticket with James Buchanan as President; unsuccessful candidate for President in 1860; elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1861, until expelled by resolution of December 4, 1861, for support of the rebellion; entered the Confederate Army during the Civil War as brigadier general and soon became a major general; Secretary of War in the Cabinet of the Confederate States from January until April 1865; resided in Europe until 1868; returned to Lexington, Ky., and resumed the practice of law; vice president of the Elizabethtown, Lexington Big Sandy Railroad Co.; died in Lexington, Ky., May 17, 1875; interment in Lexington Cemetery. - - Biographical Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 
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