Judah Philip Benjamin

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Judah Philip Benjamin (6 August 1811 – 6 May 1884) was born a British subject in Christiansted, Saint Croix, in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands), to Sephardic Jewish parents, Phillip Benjamin and Rebecca de Mendes. He emigrated with his parents to the U.S. several years later and grew up in North Carolina and South Carolina. He served as U.S. senator, Confederate Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State, and was known as the right hand man of President Jefferson Davis.