Talk:John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General)

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People of this era weren't known for their spelling. :)

Hephaestos 06:31 Feb 2, 2003 (UTC)

5th United States Attorney General
Sure? See Robert Smith (cabinet), correct please (both have the same number - fifth).Thanks--AnjaManix (talk) 14:28, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

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KY AG start date discrepancy
Both this article (specifically the body) and the Attorney General of Kentucky article say that Breckinridge's term as KY Attorney General began in 1793. However, the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and this article's infobox say his tenure began in 1795. What is the correct date, and is there a reason for the discrepancy? --1990&#39;sguy (talk) 00:59, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I did a lot of the work on this article, and although it's been a while, I think I know what probably happened. I tend to use the less specific sources first, and then go back and fill in the gaps with more specific sources. I probably did the date in the infobox based on the Biographical Directory (which appears to be wrong) and never went back and changed the infobox when more specific dates came up in better sources. Both the Harrison source cited and The Kentucky Encyclopedia, which I just re-checked, give December 1793; both of these should be preferred to the Biographical Directory. I have made the change in the infobox. Acdixon (talk · contribs) 16:40, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

more work needed
A couple of years ago, Therequiembellishere eliminated most references to this politician's legislative career in the infobox. I managed to check out the Leonard volume from the Library of Virginia a couple of weeks ago, and made the correction today. I realize the few additional lines make it longer, but I don't have time to parse the article as a whole to make clear that this man served three different terms. I don't dispute the good article status, and do appreciate mention of his slaveownership already had been made in the paragraphs concerning his inheritance from his father, and later in mentioning the size of his estate. Quickly looking at ancestry's census records does not indicate his slave ownership. He may also have owned land in Bourboun County, if he is the man of that name in the army tract census record for 1800, but I believe he represented Fayette County in the Kentucky legislature, both since the article for his son indicates Cabell's Dale is in Fayette County, and because both Fayette and nearby Bourboun were two of the new state's original counties. Frankly, I was a little annoyed at all the passive tense in the article, but left in the folk-talish mention of him opposing statehood. Gotta go no.Jweaver28 (talk) 21:46, 1 February 2021 (UTC)