Breckinridge Long


Samuel Miller Breckinridge Long was an American diplomat and politician who served in the administrations of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Breckinridge Long was born on May 16, 1881 to Margaret Miller Breckinridge and William Strudwick Long in St. Louis, Missouri, Long was a member of the Breckinridge family. Long graduated from Princeton University in 1904 and studied at Washington University School of Law in 19051906, and received his M.A. from Princeton University in 1909. Long was a distant cousin of Henry Skillman Breckinridge , who was the U.S. Secretary of War from 19131916 under Wilson, and whose daughter married John Stephens Graham, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and commissioners for the Internal Revenue Service and Atomic Energy Commission.

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