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Breckenridge, James

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 7, 1763, in Fincastle, Va. In 1781 he was a soldier in Colonel Preston's rifle regiment under General Greene. He was a prominent leader of the old federal party in the general assembly of the state; and was a member of the United States congress from 1809 to 1817. He was one of the originators of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal; and with Mr. Jefferson, a founder of the university of Virginia. He died Aug. 9, 1846, in Fincastle, Va.