Show WAS VICE PRESIDENT AT 36 john cabell of kentucky the youngest man ever to hold the th high office rr franklin anklin D roosevelt candidate tor for vice president was asked ghether whet rh ether lier it if elected at thirty eight he would be the youngest vice president of the united states ile he did not know but hoped some 6 af his friends would look the matter up john cabell B was elected ilce ice president on the lie democratic ticket with james Buchi Buc linnan inan in 1836 ue ile assumed 14 office match 4 then hen he was thirty six years one ianth and fourteen days old when breckenridge completed ills his term he was candidate for Preg president ident as representative of the slaveholding slave holding interests but was defeated by lincoln the some same year lie he was wai elected to the united states senate but soon afterward joined the lie army from january to april 1865 he be was wa secretary sea detary of war in the caal net cei of jen davis lie ile tiled died in lexan lexing too ton ky may lay 17 1875 |