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 ...

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 ...

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 Philip Benjamin (1811-1884), a fanatical southern patriot best known for his various roles as President Jefferson Davis’s second-in-command, was at once one of the most prominent and one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cocke, Edward J., "Monumental New Orleans," New Orleans: La Fayette Pub., 1968. Cocke, Edward J., "Monumental New Orleans," New Orleans: La Fayette Pub., 1968, pg. 14 ...