Wood-Sandusky-Henry County OhArchives Biographies.....Benjamin, Judah P. August 6, 1811 - May 6, 1884
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Benjamin, Judah P., American Statesman was born August 6, 1811 in Danish West 
Indies then under temporary British occupation in the Napolonic wars, now U. S. 
owned Virgin Islands. Prominent in the Cabinet of the Confederate States of 
America (1861-1865). A confidant of CSA President Jefferson Davis, was a Jewish 
Confederate. Judah served as Attorney General, Secretary of War, Secretary of 
State. He wrote "A Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property" (1868) 
known as "Benjamin on Sales," which is stilla Legal Classic. At the end of the 
war when General Robert E. Lee (4 Star) surrendered to General Ulysses S. 
Grant, (3 star), April 9, 1865, Judah made his way to Key West (Fla.) and took 
a ship to England renewing his British citizenship. He became a leader of the 
English bar. He died in Paris (France) May 6, 1884 where his Wife and Child had 
lived a number of years. Buried in Paris in an undistinguished grave. In 1938 
the Daughters of the Confederacy erected a plaque honoring his service to 
Mankind.
John B. King, Tampa, Fl., ( Hillsborough County)
tibbs43192004@yahoo.com


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