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Show WAS VICE PRESIDENT AT 36 John Cabell Breckerr-idgo of Kontucky the Youngest Man Ever to Hold the High Office. Frnnklin D. Roosevelt, Democrtvtlc candidate for vice president, was asked whether, if elected at thirty-eight, thirty-eight, he would be the youngest vice president of the United States. lie did not know, but hoped some of his friends would look the matter up. John Cabell Krec-kenridse was elected vice president on the Democratic Demo-cratic ticket with James Buchanan in 1S5G. He assumed ollice March 4, 1S57, when he was thirty-six years, one nr.-nth and fourteen days old. When Breckeuridge completed his term he was candidate for President ns representative of the slave-holding interests, hut was defeated by Lincoln. Lin-coln. The same year he was elected to the United States Semite, but soon afterward joined the L uifederate army. From January to April, 1S(5, he was secretary of war in the cabinet cabi-net of Jeff Davis. He died1 in Lexington, Lexing-ton, Ky., May 17, 1S75. |