CS President Breckenridge?

What would it take for John Breckenridge to be eligible for President of the Confederate States? IIRC, the convention elected Jefferson Davis on 18 Feb 1861, so it'd have to be before then.

Is there a plausible way to get Kentucky to secede before then? Maybe a stronger abolitionist sentiment from the North?

Or could it be as simple as Breckenridge moving to MS in January of 1861? Did the CS Constitution have laws regarding how long one had to live in a particular state? If so, would the convention follow such laws if Breckenridge had moved? (I pick MS because Breckenridge won 60% of the vote in the 1860 election, a larger percentage than any of the other Southern states.)
 
There is no way Kentucky will secede before that time. None of the Upper South had seceded that early. When hostilities began after Fort Sumter and the Upper South did secede, Kentucky still didn't secede. While there is an element in Kentucky that would like to, it is a definite minority.

Breckenridge was elected Senator from Kentucky in 1860 (the same year he lost the Presidential election) and served in Congress until he was expelled for his Confederate sympathies and Kentucky had been invaded by the Confederacy.

I don't see him leaving Kentucky early. First, he couldn't without abandoning his Senate position. If he was never elected Senator, he might potentially leave Kentucky, but I find it highly unlikely he would abandon his state so early. He would most likely stay in Kentucky in a futile attempt to convince his state to secede.

If he did leave Kentucky to live in the Deep South, I don't think the fire eaters would want to select someone not originally from one of their own states. These were ambitious men themselves. They aren't going to hand over their country to a Kentuckian.
 
One way to have this happen is to kill off Jeff Davis while the provisional constitution was still in force. With Jeff Davis dead Breckenridge could run under the permanent constitution and win.
 
I thought I had read about Kentuckian representation in the CSA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_government_of_Kentucky

so this could be a way?

The council met on December 14 to appoint representatives to the Confederacy's unicameral provisional congress.[32] Those appointed would serve for only two months, as the provisional congress was replaced with a permanent bicameral legislature on February 17, 1862.[32] Kentucky was entitled to two senators and 12 representatives in the permanent Confederate Congress.[33] The usual day for general elections being passed, Governor Johnson and the legislative council set election day for Confederate Kentucky on January 22.[33] Voters were allowed to vote in whichever county they occupied on election day, and could cast a general ballot for all positions.[33] In an election that saw military votes outnumber civilian ones, only four of the provisional legislators were elected to seats in the Confederate House of Representatives.[33] One provisional legislator, Henry Burnett, was elected to the Confederate Senate.[33]

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