Judah Philip Benjamin

Birth Date

1811-08-06

Death Date

1884-05-06

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisiana, Confederate Secretary of War, State, and Attorney General. Native of the West Indies. Married to Natalie Benjamin. Father of Ann L. Benjamin. Admitted to the bar in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1833. U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1852 to 1861. First attorney general of the Confederacy from February 25, 1861 to September 1861. Secretary of War of the Confederacy from September 1861 to March 1862. Secretary of State of the Confederacy from March 1862 until the end of the Civil War. Moved to England in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Louisiana, Orleans, New Orleans Ward 1, p. 153.
"Judah Philip Benjamin," National Parks Service, November 10, 2018, https://www.nps.gov/people/judah-philip-benjamin.htm (accessed December 19, 2019).

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