Henry Breckinridge
Henry Skillman Breckinridge (born May 25, 1886 in Chicago , Illinois , † May 2, 1960 in New York City ) was an American lawyer, fencer and politician. He became known in 1932 as a lawyer during the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby and in 1936 as an unsuccessful candidate for US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Democratic Party primaries .
biography
Breckinridge came from the prominent Breckinridge family; his father was Joseph Cabell Breckinridge Sr., most recently Brigadier General and Inspector General of the United States Army . He studied law at Princeton University and Harvard Law School . From 1913 to 1916 he was Democrat United States Assistant Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson in the US War Department .
During the First World War , he served as the commander of a battalion . He was last listed as a colonel in the army. After 1918 he worked as a prominent lawyer in New York. In 1932 he represented Charles Lindbergh as a lawyer during the trial of the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby against the perpetrator Bruno Richard Hauptmann .
He was a member of the fencing team at the 1920 Summer Olympics and the 1928 Summer Olympics . At the 1920 Games, he won the bronze medal with the US foil team and he was the captain of the US team in 1928. With the foil team and the epee team he reached fifth place in 1928.
Breckinridge was a staunch opponent of the social reform policy of the New Deal in the USA. He was Roosevelt's only serious contender in the 1936 Democratic presidential election. The very popular Roosevelt was able to assert himself with 4.8 million votes against only 0.14 million votes for Breckinridge. He then supported the Republican unsuccessful rival candidate Alf Landon in the 1936 presidential election in the United States .
Breckinridge was married three times; since 1927 in second marriage with Aida de Acosta , who in 1903 was the first woman to fly a motorized airship alone . He had three daughters; Elizabeth Foster Breckinridge (1911-2005), a social philanthropist , was married to lawyer John Stephens Graham, who u. a. United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The Breckinridge Peak , a mountain in Antarctica, bears his name.
Works
- shall not perish . Scribner Press, 1941.
Web links
- Henry Breckinridge in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our Campaigns: Presidential Candidates, Democratic Primary Elections 1936.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Shaw Oliver |
Deputy Secretary of War 1913–1916 |
William Moulton Ingraham |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breckinridge, Henry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Breckinridge, Henry Skillman (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer, athlete, and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1960 |
| Place of death | New York City |