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Judah Benjamin: Lecture

Published 5 February 2010 by jcairns

One of the most fascinating figures in Louisiana legal history is Judah Benjamin. The LSE has a legal biography project of great importance: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/projects/legalbiog/lbp.htm On 9 February Dr Catherine MacMillan will talk on Benjamin's English career.

His was a colourful life, born in Ste Croix a british subject,  becoming a lawyer in New Orleans, marrying a creole heiress, being the first Jewish member of the US Senate, becoming attorney general and then Secretary of State of the Confederacy, being indicted for conspracy to murder Lincoln! His Louisiana fortune lost, he hawidth=114d a successful career as an English barrister.

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