John C. Breckinridge

John Cabell Breckinridge started his career as a lawyer then became a politician. He followed in the the footsteps of his father and grandfather who were both politicians. Breckinridge was U.S. representative and senator for the state of Kentucky. While Breckindge's presidential campaign lacked leaving him in third place with the popular vote behind Lincoln and Douglass he is best know for being the 14th vice president of the United States. John C. Breckinridge is still the youngest vice president to be inaugurated to date. In Breckinridge's efforts to become president in the election of 1860 he took a southern democratic stance promoting the expansion of slavery. Later, Breckinridge served as a general for the confederate  army in the American Civil War.