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Mr Bristow’s family was among the fonders of KY and helped form the Republican Party in KY. He served as a Union officer in the Cival War, was elected to the KY house, appointed KY US District-ATTY and prosecuted Federal crimes during reconstruction. He was appointed the first Solicitor-G of the US and served as Treasury Secretary under President Grant during which time he was responsible for the refinancing of the Civil War debt and successfully prosecuted the “Whiskey Ring”. In eighteen seventy six he was nominated by the Republican Party for president, thereafter he relocated to NYC and organized the American Bar Association. Cases he litigated established legal principles that ignorance of the law no excuse”, the life of a patent and preferential debts under a receivership. Upon his death, Mr. Bristow was counsel to three Presidents and a respected defender of US Corporate law. Tributes to him graced the pages of newspapers throughout the US and Europe acknowledging him a as a leader of his generation not to be easily replaced.
Benjamin Helm Bristow was the 30th U.S. Treasury Secretary, the first Solicitor General, an American lawyer, a Union military officer, Republican Party politician, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Bristow, during his tenure as Secretary of Treasury, is primarily known for breaking up and prosecuting the Whiskey Ring, a corrupt tax evasion profiteering ring that depleted the national treasury, having President Ulysses S. Grant's permission. As the United States' first solicitor general, Bristow aided President Ulysses S. Grant and Attorney General Amos T. Akerman's vigorous and thorough prosecution and destruction of the Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstructed South.[1] Sol. Gen. Bristow advocated African American citizens in Kentucky be allowed to testify in a white man's court case and that education was for all races to be paid for by public funding.
Excerpt from Some Facts About the Life and Public Services of Benjamin Helm Bristow, of Kentucky: Designed as a Reply to Inquiries Often Made Respecting the Leading Events of His Life In 1847 Mr. Bristow entered Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated, in 1851, leaving behind him a reputa tion for solidity rather than brilliancy of scholarship. He was noted as a logical debater as well as for independence of charac ter and sturdy, self reliant manhood. Returning to Elkton, he entered the law office of his father, where he studied two years. In 1853, he commenced the practice of law with suc cess, remaining at Elkton till 1858, when he kinsville, Kentucky, and engaged in the practice Sion there, in partnership with Judge R. J. Petr sequently with the Hon. John Feland. Three years later the war of the rebellion commenced and Mr. Bristow promptly espousing the cause of the Union, announced his intention to enter the army. Kentucky was in a ferment, her wealth and aristocracy strongly in sympathy with the rebellion, and her old whig traditions still attaching her to the Union. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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