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Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to Britain at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister.
Judah P. Benjamin (born August 6, 1811, St. Croix, Virgin Islands—died May 6, 1884, Paris, France) was a prominent lawyer in the United States before the American Civil War (1861–65) and in England after that conflict; he also held high offices in the government of the Confederate States of America.
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One 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.
Judah Philip Benjamin was a politician, a lawyer, a United States senator, and during the American Civil War, the second-in-command of the Confederacy. Benjamin was born August 6, 1811 on the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies (the present-day Virgin Islands) to Jewish parents.
- Clay Travis
Jun 23, 2023 · The Hunt for Judah P. Benjamin, the Spy Chief of the Confederacy. Suspected of orchestrating the Lincoln assassination, the South’s most prominent Jew escaped to London to start a new...
Judah 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.
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May 14, 2018 · An American lawyer and statesman, Judah Philip Benjamin (1811-1884) served in the Cabinet of the Confederate president Jefferson Davis until the end of the Civil War. Judah Benjamin was born a British subject on St. Thomas, British West Indies, Aug. 11, 1811.
