Monday, May 24, 2010

Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin's Grave in Père Lachaise, 2010

The plaque at the base of the headstone reads:

Judah Philip BENJAMIN
Born Saint Thomas West Indies August 6 1811
Died in Paris May 6 1884
United States Senator from Louisiana
Attorney General, Secretary of War and
Secretary of State of the Confederate States
of America. Queen's Counsellor, London