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Judah P. Benjamin

1811 - 1884

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Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to Britain at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America and the first to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced his faith. Benjamin was born to Sephardic Jewish parents from London who had moved to Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies when it was occupied by Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Judah P. Benjamin has received more than 1,115,493 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Judah P. Benjamin is the 14,460th most popular politician (down from 13,247th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from U.S. Virgin Islands and the most popular Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Judah P. Benjamin ranks 14,460 out of 19,576. Before him are Portia Simpson-Miller, Georges Lacombe, Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Ruslan Aushev, Luc Frieden, and José Rondeau. After him are Manuel Scorza, Vittorio Sgarbi, Hans von Blixen-Finecke, Icel of Mercia, Dmitry Shemyaka, and Æscwine of Wessex.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Judah P. Benjamin ranks 60. Before him are James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, Johann Georg von Hahn, John William Casilear, Dimitrija Demeter, John Neumann, and Katarina Ivanović. After him are Victor Duruy, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, James Hall, Henry Liddell, Luis González-Bravo y López de Arjona, and Karl Ludwig Littrow. Among people deceased in 1884, Judah P. Benjamin ranks 60. Before him are Andon Bedros IX Hassoun, Buenaventura Báez, Daniel Harrwitz, Heinrich Göppert, Alfred Francis Russell, and Ferdinand von Hochstetter. After him are Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, Menyhért Lónyay, Heinrich Laube, Tomás Frías, and Quintino Sella.

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In U.S. Virgin Islands

Among people born in U.S. Virgin Islands, Judah P. Benjamin ranks 6 out of 12. Before him are Camille Pissarro (1830), Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville (1818), Kelsey Grammer (1955), Emile Griffith (1938), and Tim Duncan (1976). After him are Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832), Jasmin St. Claire (1972), Peter Holmberg (1960), John de Jongh Jr. (1957), Raja Bell (1976), and Daryl Homer (1990).

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Among POLITICIANS In U.S. Virgin Islands

Among politicians born in U.S. Virgin Islands, Judah P. Benjamin ranks 1. After him are John de Jongh Jr. (1957).

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