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d. 1884 United Kingdom

Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American politician and lawyer. Born a British subject in the West Indies, he became a citizen of the United States, serving as a Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and then as a U.S.

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Also known as: Benjamin, Judah, Benjamin, Judah P., Benjamin, Judah Philip, Benjamin, Judah Phillip, Judah Benjamin, Judah Philip Benjamin

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First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher.

It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener’s watering pot.

On the secession movement in the South (1860)

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