Daniel Breck
Daniel Breck (February 12, 1788 – February 4, 1871) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky.
Daniel Breck (brother of Samuel Breck) was born in Topsfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1812. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1814, and commenced practice in Richmond, Kentucky, in October of the same year. He was a judge of the Richmond County Court. He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1824 to 1827 and again in 1834. He was president of the Richmond branch of the State Bank of Kentucky from 1835 to 1843. He was appointed associate judge of the Supreme Court of Kentucky on April 7, 1843, and served until 1849. He owned slaves.[1]
Breck was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-First Congress. He returned to Richmond, Kentucky, and again served as president of the Richmond branch of the State Bank. He died in Richmond on February 4, 1871, and is buried at Richmond Cemetery.
References
[edit]- ^ "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, 2022-01-13, retrieved 2022-07-06
- United States Congress. "Daniel Breck (id: B000782)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- The Political Graveyard
- Allen, William B. (1872). A History of Kentucky: Embracing Gleanings, Reminiscences, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Statistics, and Biographical Sketches of Pioneers, Soldiers, Jurists, Lawyers, Statesmen, Divines, Mechanics, Farmers, Merchants, and Other Leading Men, of All Occupations and Pursuits. Bradley & Gilbert. pp. 277–278. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
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