Judah P. Benjamin / Pierce Butler ; introduction by Bennett H. Wall.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American statesmen seriesPublication details: New York : Chelsea House, 1980.Description: xxxv, 459 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0877541981
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.7/13/0924 B 19
LOC classification:
  • E 467.1.B4 B9 1980
Online resources:
Contents:
I. Birth and training -- II. Law and sugar -- III. Politics and constitution making -- IV. From state politics to the Senate -- V. Commercial interests -- VI. Change in political views -- VII. In and out of the senate -- VIII. The presidential campaign of 1860 -- IX. Attorney-General and Secretary of War -- X. The Confederate commissioners -- XI. Diplomatic relations with France and England -- XII. Dark days in Richmond -- XIII. Starting life anew -- XIV. A new home and new fame -- XV. Character and achievement.
Summary: "Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 11, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who 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. 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 formally converted to Christianity. (He was preceded by his cousin David Levy Yulee, who had renounced Judaism, and his own ties to the Jewish community were weak: he married a Catholic, and may have converted later in life as he received Christian last rites.) He successively held the Cabinet positions of Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State of the Confederate States of America." -- from Wikipedia.
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Reprint of the 1907 edition published by G. W. Jacobs, Philadelphia, in series: American crisis biographies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 442-449) and index.

I. Birth and training -- II. Law and sugar -- III. Politics and constitution making -- IV. From state politics to the Senate -- V. Commercial interests -- VI. Change in political views -- VII. In and out of the senate -- VIII. The presidential campaign of 1860 -- IX. Attorney-General and Secretary of War -- X. The Confederate commissioners -- XI. Diplomatic relations with France and England -- XII. Dark days in Richmond -- XIII. Starting life anew -- XIV. A new home and new fame -- XV. Character and achievement.

"Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 11, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who 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. 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 formally converted to Christianity. (He was preceded by his cousin David Levy Yulee, who had renounced Judaism, and his own ties to the Jewish community were weak: he married a Catholic, and may have converted later in life as he received Christian last rites.) He successively held the Cabinet positions of Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State of the Confederate States of America." -- from Wikipedia.

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