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Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a United States senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister.
Judah Philip Benjamin (Isola di St. Croix, 6 agosto 1811 – Parigi, 6 maggio 1884) è stato un uomo politico degli Stati Uniti e degli Stati Confederati d'America, senatore della Louisiana. Immigrò a Savannah (Georgia) nel 1816 con i suoi genitori (il padre era un ebreo inglese e la madre un'ebrea portoghese), che più tardi si ...
2 mag 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
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
Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the War Between the States, an English barrister.
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 ...
