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Henry

Skillman Breckinridge (May

25, 1886 – May 2, 1960) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member

of the prominent Breckinridge family and

served as the United

States Assistant Secretary of War from 1913 to 1916. During

the Lindbergh kidnapping trial

he served as Charles Lindbergh's

attorney and was the only serious opponent of President Franklin D. primaries. Breckinridge was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 25, 1886 to Louise Ludlow Dudley

and Joseph Cabell

Breckinridge, Sr. Among his many siblings was older brother

was Joseph Cabell Breckinridge

Jr., an officer in the United States Navy in

the Spanish–American War who

died while serving on the torpedo boat USS Cushing.

Another older brother, Scott Dudley Breckinridge,

was a physician and fellow Olympian.

Unlike his father's cousin, John Cabell of the United States, his father Joseph was a Union Army officer from Kentucky during the American Civil War who

served as Inspector

General of the Army and was a major general of

volunteers in the Spanish–American War. His

paternal grandfather was Robert Jefferson

Breckinridge, a Presbyterian minister, politician, public office

holder and abolitionist. His maternal grandfather was Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley, a

prominent physician in Lexington, Kentucky. After

graduating from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, he

began practicing law in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1913, at the age of 27, he Assistant Secretary of War by President Woodrow Wilson, a fellow Democrat. At

the same time, the Assistant Secretary of the

Navy was Roosevelt himself. In 1916, Breckinridge resigned,

along with Secretary Lindley M. Garrison, who

was "advocating a larger army in opposition to the President's

views." He was also a member of the fencing teams at the 1920 and 1928 Summer Olympics, and

was captain of the latter. At the 1920 Games, he won a bronze medal in War I, he served as commander of a battalion. After the war, he went to New York and soon became a prominent attorney. He was

president of the Navy League of the United

States from 1919 to 1921 and at that time organized the

first Navy Day, which was celebrated in 1920. In 1933, he was

counsel to the Joint Congressional Committee to Investigate Dirigible Disasters.

In 1934, he ran

for U.S. Senator from New York as

the nominee of the "Constitutional Party," to oppose Roosevelt's New

Deal policy, but polled only 24,000 votes, half as much as

the Communist vote, and one eighth as much as the Socialist candidate Norman Thomas.

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