BENJAMIN was a Jew. He was born a British subject. He made a brilliant reputation at the Louisiana Bar and was offered a seat in the United States Supreme Court. He became United States senator. When ...

Judah P. Benjamin was known as "the brains of the Confederacy," its "court Jew," "the statesman of the Lost Cause," and even "the Confederate Kissinger." As, successively, attorney general, secretary ...

Quiggle, President of John B. Gordon chapter 383 UDC, presented a program about Judah P. Benjamin. He was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet-level office in an American government. CSA President ...

In 1842, Judah P. Benjamin stood inside a New Orleans courtroom and declared that “slavery is against the law of nature.” It was part of his winning argument as to why an insurance company didn’t have ...

The career of Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884), the Jewish son of the South who lent his legal brilliance to the Confederacy as its secretary of state and chief adviser to its president, Jefferson Davis, ...

A monument to Judah P. Benjamin, the Jewish lawyer from Louisiana, who served as Secretary of State in the cabinet of the Confederate States of America, was unveiled in Sarasota today by the local ...

The monument does not belong in a place of prominence within our city, the leaders of two Charlotte synagogues write. This letter originally appeared on the website of Temple Beth El of Charlotte, ...

JUDAH P. BENJAMIN—Robert Douthat Meade—Oxford ($3.75). The man whom Abraham Lincoln called the smartest of the Confederate civil leaders is no more familiar to most U.S. readers than Felix Kirk ...

The General Edmond Winchester Rucker Chapter honored five local citizens recently for their contribution to the community, presenting them with the Judah P. Benjamin Award. This award is named for ...

DOUBLE lives are decried, but Judah P. Benjamin lived his in sequence. A lawyer of consummate ability, born in the West Indies under the British flag, he became Attorney General, head of the War ...