# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/judah-p-benjamin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:57:14.529Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/judah-p-benjamin"
name: "Judah P. Benjamin"
slug: "judah-p-benjamin"
description: "Judah Philip Benjamin was a lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Louisiana, a member of the Confederate States Cabinet 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."
tagline: "American politician and lawyer (1811-1884)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Judah_Benjamin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1811-08-06"
deathDate: "1884-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.21413866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump