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Judah Philip Benjamin (6 août 1811 - 6 mai 1884) est un homme politique et juriste américain.
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 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.
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. Born in the West Indies in 1811 to observant Jewish parents, Benjamin was raised in Charleston, South Carolina.
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.
19 oct. 2021 · Judah Benjamin was the largest Jewish slave owner in the South and a key member of Confederate President Jefferson Davis’ government. ‘This is a person who had some very impressive qualities but did sickening, horrible things,’ says biographer James Traub.
6 oct. 2021 · But the latest book, released this week, grapples with a much knottier subject: Judah Benjamin, the eminent Southern lawyer and Louisiana senator who, during the Civil War, went on to serve as attorney general, secretary of war and, ultimately, secretary of state of the Confederacy.
