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Show DEATH OF W. C. P. BRECKINRIDGE. The death of Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge Breckin-ridge of Kentucky recalls to public notice a man who had gone Into eclipse through his own misdirocted passions. Since his escapade with Madeline Pollard Pol-lard he has ben as one dead, so far as his public .activities are concerned. And yet, he was one of the most brilliant bril-liant of men. He ranked high as an orator, a lawyer, and a slntesman. Few stood so high, or were more In the line of winning even higher honors than he had yet reaped. Jel in an evil hour ho yielded, and fell down. But others have also yielded to temptation, and have not been so severely held to stem account. Mr. Breckinridge was born in Baltimore, Balti-more, August 2S, 1837, a son of the Rev. Robert Jefferson Breckinridge; he was a graduate of Center college, Danville, Kentucky. April 2G. 1S55; he received the degrees of A. M., L.L.D., and also LL,B.. from the University of Louisville. February 27. 1857; and that of LL.D. from the Central university of Richmond, Kentucky, and Cumberland Cumber-land university of Tennessee. He entered en-tered the service of the Confederacy as captain, and became colonel of the Ninth Kentucky cavalry, and was commander com-mander of the Kentucky cavalry brigade., bri-gade., when It surrendered. He was afterwards professor of equity Jurisprudence Juris-prudence in the Kentucky university. He was elected Representative In Congress Con-gress from the Seventh Congressional District of Kentucky in 18S-J, and was continuously elected for five terms, but was defeated for the fifth renomina-tion renomina-tion on account of tho scandal referred to. Ills was a conspicuous example of the phrase, "A good man gone wrong." |