A memorial to Breckinridge was placed on the Fayette County Courthouse lawn in Lexington in 1887 . The racially motivated Charleston church shooting in South Carolina in June 2015 reinvigorated demands for the removal of monuments dedicated to prominent pro-slavery and Confederate figures . In November 2015 , a committee , the Urban County Arts Review Board 's , voted to recommend removal of both the Breckinridge statue and the John Hunt Morgan statue from the Courthouse grounds . Amy Murrell Taylor , an associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky , claimed that the " statues are not and have never been neutral representations of the Civil War past but instead they are embodiments of a racially charged postwar interpretation of it . " The relocation of the memorial to the Lexington Cemetery was completed in July 2018 . The bases for the statues , security cameras , and moving costs were funded by private donations . Breckinridge 's was placed in the his family 's burial area in Section G.
Charleston church shooting
Charleston church shooting
John C. Breckinridge