curprev13:5813:58, 8 June 2019 71.175.243.150talk 30,124 bytes−178 He did not support Lincoln in 1860. (He supported his nephew, as the only candidate who could beat Lincoln and thus preserve the union). See Will Gilliam "Robert J. Breckinridge: Kentucky Unionist" in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Vol. 69, No. 4undo