Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884
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U.S. senator from Louisiana; Confederate cabinet member, and lawyer. In Feb. 1862, Benjamin was the Confederate Secretary of War.
Judah P. Benjamin was an attorney, planter, politician, and Confederate cabinet member. He was born in St. Thomas, British West Indies and came to New Orleans in 1828. Benjamin was elected to the Louisiana Legislature in 1842, became a delegate to the Louisiana constitutional convention in 1845, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1852 and 1859. As a Confederate cabinet member, Benjamin served as attorney general, secretary of war, and secretary of state. In 1866, Benjamin moved to London where he practiced law until his retirement in 1883, at which time he moved to Paris. He died in 1884.
Benjamin (1811-1884) was a Louisiana senator and secretary of war for the Confederacy.
Judah P. Benjamin was an Attorney General for the Confederate States Government and a U.S. Senator from La.
U.S. senator from Louisiana; Confederate cabinet member, and lawyer. In Aug. 1863, Benjamin was the Confederate Secretary of State.
U.S. senator from Louisiana; Confederate cabinet member, and lawyer.
Judah Philip Benjamin (1811-1884), lawyer and Cabinet official with the Confederate States government during the Civil War. After the war, Benjamin settled in England where he practiced law as a barrister.
U.S. senator from Louisiana, Confederate cabinet officer, and lawyer.
U.S. senator from Louisiana; Confederate cabinet member, and lawyer. In early March 1862, Benjamin was the Confederate Secretary of War.
U.S. senator from Louisiana; Confederate cabinet member, and lawyer. In Nov. 1862, Benjamin was the Confederate Secretary of State.
Judah P. Benjamin, called the "brains of the Confederacy" and the "man behind the throne" of the Confederate aristocracy, was an unparalleled statesman and jurist in the United States, the Confederate States, and Great Britain. A man of multiple talents, Benjamin achieved high-ranking titles wherever he served, especially leaving an indelible mark in the South where he held more official positions than any other man during the Civil War.
On August 6, 1811, Judah Philip Benjamin was born to Jewish parents of English nationality temporarily making residence in the British West Indies. In 1816, the Benjamin family immigrated to the United States, taking up residence in the Carolinas. In 1825, Benjamin attended Yale College, however, he never completed his studies there.
In December of 1832, Benjamin began his long association with the law when he was admitted to the Louisiana bar and began a successful practice in that newly ratified state. In 1853, Benjamin was elected to the United States Senate representing Louisiana and was reelected again in 1859. As slavery became the heated issue of the day, Benjamin sided with the South giving many speeches on the Senate floor in support of slavery.
In February of 1861, after the first battles of the Civil War, Benjamin resigned from his Senate post and was quickly appointed first Attorney General of the Confederate States of America. He was quickly promoted to Confederate Secretary of War in August of 1861, and then personally chosen by Confederate President Jefferson Davis in February of 1862 to be the Confederacy's third Secretary of State, which he remained as until the Confederacy's defeat at the end of the war.
After the capture of Jefferson Davis and other high-ranking Confederate officials in 1865, Benjamin fled to England, where he was well received due to connections through American friends and a friendship with British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. In 1866, Benjamin was admitted to the English bar, and in 1868 he wrote "A Treatise on Law of Sale of Personal Property." He was an excellent practitioner of jurisprudence amassing a great fortune from his practice and quickly assumed a position as a barrister, and later in 1872 he was appointed the highest ranking of Queen's counselor. Benjamin died on May 8, 1884 in Paris after a long period of declining health after falling when descending a tramcar.
Benjamin's legacy continued long after his death, being one of the legendary heroes of the Old South. In 1925, the Judah P. Benjamin Commission was established in Florida to preserve and restore the Gamble plantation where Benjamin hid from Union soldiers in his flight to England. In 1930, 1942, and 1948, monuments to Benjamin were erected respectfully in Richmond, Va., Sarasota, Fl., and Charlotte, N.C. with the cooperation of local Jewish organizations and groups preserving the history of the Confederacy.
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