Judah P. Benjamin
Judah Philip Benjamin was a lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Louisiana, a member of the Confederate States Cabinet and, after his escape to Britain at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America and the first to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced his faith.
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- Born in
- Christiansted
- Educated at
- Yale College
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1811
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Birth1884
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