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Excerpt from Judah P. Benjamin: Statesman and Jurist
Concerning his position as a lawyer, it will suffice to say that he was regarded as the ablest lawyer of the South already in 1852, when he was elected to the U. S. Senate, that he was offered the attorney-general-ship of the United States by one President and the nomination to a seat on the Supreme Court bench by another, and had become one of the recognized leaders of the American bar ten years before he began life anew at the bottom of the ladder at the English bar in 1866, from which he retired in 1882, as its acknowledged leader, in the possession of an income of over per year, and the author of one of the ablest law treatises of our English juris prudence. The late J. L. M. Curry, one of his most scholarly associates at the helm of the Confederacy, writing in says of him: In the Supreme Court of the United States he could fitly be compared with Wirt, Pinkney, Carter and Choate and a learned Scotch Judge (lord Shand) told me some years ago in Seville that he stood at the head of the English bar.
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