Classify Judah P. Benjamin - Confederate Politician

[Anglojew]

Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a Jewish-American politician and lawyer who served in cabinet level positions in the Confederate States of America, including Secretary of War and Secretary of State and was on the Confederate two dollar bill.

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[riverman]

Jewish or Semitic of some sort,

[Anglojew]

Jewish or Semitic of some sort,

Yes, I think his ancestry was Sephardi. He does look typically Jewish.

[alfieb]

Wikipedia says Portuguese Jew, so yeah, Sephardi.

[Smeagol]

Levantine.

[StonyArabia]

East-Med/Alpine

[Smeagol]

Jefferson Davis called him the brains of the Confederacy.

[Aquafina]

Middle Eastern and therefore not white. :)

[Aquafina]

Horatio, stop thumbing me down!