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Benjamin (JUDAH PHILIP an American)

JUDAH PHILIP, an American lawyer, born in St. Croix, West Indies, Aug. 11, 1811; was of English parentage and of Jewish faith. He was educated at Yale College; admitted to the bar in New Orleans, in 1832; and elected to the United States Senate in 1852 and 1858. At the beginning of the Civil War, he resigned from the Senate and declared his adhesion to the State of Louisiana. In 1861 he accepted the office of Attorney-General in the Cabinet of Jefferson Davis, and afterward became successively Confederate Secretary of War and Secretary of State. After the war he went to London, England, was admitted to the bar in 1866 and became famous. He wrote a "Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property" (1868). He died in Paris, May 7, 1884.