Breckinridge, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson), 1800-1871 (Personal Name)

His Address before the Colonization Society of Kentucky, 1831: t.p. (Robert J. Breckinridge)

MWA/NAIP files (hdg. Breckinridge, R. J. (Robert Jefferson), 1800-1871; usage: Robert J. Breckinridge; R.J. Breckinridge; Dr. Breckinridge; R.J. Breckenridge; Robert J. Breckenridge; Robert Judas Breckinridge)

LC in RLIN, 1/22/90 (hdg.: Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson, 1800-1871; hdg.: Breckinridge, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson), 1800-1871; usage: Robert J. Breckinridge)

Kentucky encyclopedia, ©1992: page 120 ("Robert Jefferson Breckinridge", called the father of the public school system in Kentucky was born March 8, 1800 near Lexington, Ky. Attended Princeton and Yale, graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 1819. Elected to Kentucky legislature in 1825; served there until 1830. Ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1832. Was president of Jefferson College in Pennsylvania 1845-1847 then superintendent of Public Instruction in Kentucky 1851-1853 in which role he supported the first Kentucky property tax for educational funding, then was a professor at the Danville Theological Seminary 1853-1869. Died in Lexington, Ky. on December 27, 1871)