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Judah P. Benjamin
American politician and lawyer (1811–1884)
Judah Phillip Benjamin QC | |
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Benjamin, c. 1856 | |
| In office March 18, 1862 – May 10, 1865 | |
| President | Jefferson Davis |
| Preceded by | William Browne (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| In office September 17, 1861 – March 24, 1862 | |
| President | Jefferson Davis |
| Preceded by | LeRoy Walker |
| Succeeded by | George Randolph |
| In office February 25, 1861 – November 15, 1861 | |
| President | Jefferson Davis |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Wade Keyes (acting) |
| In office March 4, 1853 – February 4, 1861 | |
| Preceded by | Solomon Downs |
| Succeeded by | John Harris (1868) |
| Born | Judah Phillip Benjamin (1811-08-06)August 6, 1811 Christiansted, Danish West Indies |
| Died | May 6, 1884(1884-05-06) (aged 72) Paris, Seine, France |
| Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Political party | Whig (before 1856) Democratic (from 1856) |
| Spouse | Natalie Bauché de St. Martin (m. 1833) |
Judah BenjaminOne of the most misunderstood figures in American Jewish history is Judah P. Benjamin, whom some historians have called “the brains of the Confederacy,” even as others tried to blame him for the South’s defeat. Born in the West Indies in 1811 to observant Jewish parents, Benjamin was raised in Charleston, South Carolina. A brilliant child, at age 14 he attended Yale Law School, but was expelled soon afterwards for improper conduct. After Yale expelled him, he moved to New Orleans where he studied law and eventually passed the bar exam. A founder of the Illinois Central Railroad, a state legislator, and a planter who owned 140 slaves until he sold his plantation in 1850, Judah Benjamin was elected to the United States Senate from Louisiana in 1852. When the slave states seceded in 1861, Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed Benjamin as Attorney-General on February 25, 1861, making him the first Jew to hold a Cabinet-level office in an American government and the only Confederate Cabinet member who did not own slaves. Benjamin later served as the Confede
Judah Phillip BenjaminJudah Philip Benjamin served as the Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State for the Confederacy. The first Jewish-American to serve on an executive cabinet in American history, he has received the title “brains of the Confederacy” by scholars for his apparent position as Jefferson Davis’ right hand. Benjamin was born on August 11, 1811 in the British West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) to a Sephardic Jewish family, or Jews of Spanish descent. In 1821, Judah and his family relocated to Charleston, South Carolina, a city known for its tolerance towards the Jewish faith. In 1825, at the age of fourteen, Judah entered Yale College. Despite Benjamin’s high level of success at Yale, he left in 1827 and moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he began to study law. In the same year, he married a woman named Natalie St. Martin. As part of the dowry for the wedding, he received two female slaves. In 1831, after three years of studying law and working as a clerk, Benjamin passed the bar and was assigned his first case only months later in Copyright ©rimpair.pages.dev 2025 | |