William Breeden

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William Breeden (* before 1865 in Kentucky , † after 1889) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ).

Career

Nothing is known about the early years of William Breeden. Breeden moved to the end of the Civil War in the New Mexico Territory . There he took up a job in the tax authorities. In 1869 he was a clerk on the Supreme Court and the First District Court when he began the practice. The Governor Marsh Giddings appointed him in 1872 to the Attorney General of New Mexico Territory. He held the post until his resignation, which occurred almost at the end of Governor Samuel Beach Axtell's tenure .

As a delegate took Breeden in 1876 at the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati ( Ohio ), where he voted for the presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes. In the following presidential election in 1876 , Hayes won. Breeden presided over the Republican Party of New Mexico Territory for many years.

Axtell appointed the Chief Justice Henry L. Waldo to succeed Breeden to the vacancy to fill. President Rutherford B. Hayes reappointed Charles McCandless as the new Chief Justice in New Mexico Territory in early 1878. Breeden was reappointed Attorney General of the New Mexico Territory in 1881. His appointment was made by Governor Lionel Allen Sheldon . Breeden held the post until it was abolished in 1889.

Colonel Breeden was considered by many to be the smartest politician and most capable lawyer in New Mexico Territory at the time. He was an excellent lawyer, a skilled prosecutor, and a born leader.

In 1888 his health deteriorated. Therefore, he later moved to the vicinity of Boston ( Massachusetts ).

Trivia

During the 1870s and 1880s, Attorney Marshall A. Breeden was Assistant Attorney General in the New Mexico Territory. He was also born in Kentucky. William Breeden and Marshall A. Breeden were probably related to each other.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Twitchell, Ralph Emerson: The Leading Facts of New Mexican History , Volume 2, Sunstone Press, 2007, p. 485, ISBN 9780865345850
  2. ^ David J. Miller, Biographical Sketch , New Mexico State Historian

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personal data
SURNAME Breeden, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH before 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH after 1889