1From Thomas Jefferson to John Breckinridge, 25 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
John Breckinridge (1760–1806), a lawyer and native Virginian who drafted the address with which a committee of Albemarle County residents welcomed TJ home from France in February 1790, had been elected to the third Congress as a Republican in 1792, but resigned and moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where he headed the Democratic Society of Kentucky and in 1793 supported an effort, launched by...