Live Oak Co., TX - Bios: Judah P. Benjamin ****************************************************** Contributed by: John B. King April 9, 2007, 8:57 am Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ****************************************************** JUDAH P. BENJAMIN August 6, 1811 - May 6, 1884 Author: John B. King Judah P. Benjamin, American Statesman, Born August 6, 1811 in Danisg 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 President Jefferson Davis, Judah was a Jewish Confederate. He served as Attorney General, Secretary of War, Secretary of State. He wrote "A Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Propertry," (1868) known as "Benjamin on Sales." He wrote one other work. At the end of the war, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses Grant, 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 lived a number of years. Buried in an undistinguished grave, the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1938 erected a plaque on his grave recognizing his service to Mankind. John B. King, Tampa, Fla, This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/txfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb