Scott Breckinridge

Scott Breckinridge competed for the Washington Fencers’ Club. He later wrote the book Sword Play, and coached the University of Kentucky fencing team. Breckinridge’s grandfather was Joseph Cabell, who fought for the Union in the Civil War, and became General and Inspector General of the Army. His brother was Henry Breckinridge, who also fenced in the Olympics and was Assistant Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson, served as a lawyer to Charles Lindbergh, and ran as a conservative third-part candidate in Democratic primaries against President Franklin Roosevelt in 1936.