 In their book, "A New History of Kentucky", Lowell H. Harrison and James C. Klotter, state that Breckinridge was the most influential woman in the state.She was named one of the Kentucky Women Remembered in 1996 and her portrait is permanently displayed at the state capitol.She was born in Woodlake, Kentucky and grew up at Ashland, the farm established by her great-grandfather, nineteenth-century statesman Henry Clay.