Elected to the United States Senate and serving from 1852 to 1861, he enraged whites by arguing that slaves should be emancipated and conscripted into the army.
Born a British subject on the island of St. Croix, he moved to England permanently in 1865 and became a successful lawyer whose treatise The Law of Sale of Permanent Property was for many years the standard text on the subject in England and the US.  A graduate of Yale law school, he built a successful commercial and insurance law practice. Elected to the United States Senate and serving from 1852 to 1861, he enraged whites by arguing that slaves should be emancipated and conscripted into the army. FTP name this man, the first practicing Jew to serve in the Senate but most famous as the Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State of the Confederate States of America.
Born a British subject on the island of St. Croix, he moved to England permanently in 1865 and became a successful lawyer whose treatise The Law of Sale of Permanent Property was for many years the standard text on the subject in England and the US.  
Judah Philip Benjamin