Judah P. Benjamin

(August 6, 1811 - May 5, 1884)

Judah Philip Benjamin was born in the West Indies. His family moved to the Carolinas. He was a Yale educated lawyer. he was elected to the U.S. Senate (1852). He was appointed Attorney General of the Confederacy and held the offices of Secretary of War and Secretary of State under the Confederacy.

In 1865, he fled to Great Britian and practiced law.