James Burnie Beck was a United States Representative and Senator from Kentucky. Born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Beck immigrated to the United States in 1838 and settled in Wyoming County, New York. He moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1843 and graduated from Transylvania University in 1846. Beck was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Lexington. Until shortly before the civil war he was law partner of John C. Breckinridge, the U.S. Vice President who became a Confederate general, and during the Civil War Beck was interrogated by a military commission about his knowledge of his former partner's activities

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