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Secession at Yale | John C. Calhoun and Cassius Clay | Yale and the Confederacy | The Civil War and its Aftermath |
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The 19th Century
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Judah P. Benjamin
Benjamin (above) was the highest ranking Yale graduate
in the Confederate Government. Because of his exceptional skills as a lawyer,
Jefferson Davis appointed Benjamin as Attorney General, and later Secretary
of War. After the war he fled to London and distinguished himself as a lawyer
through his litigation and his classic book, Treatise on the Law of Sale
of Personal Property (1868). He is pictured below on the Confederate two-dollar
note.
Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884) b. in St. Thomas, British West Indies, Class
of 1828.
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