Judah P. Benjamin was a Jew who was twice elected to the US Senate by LA voters in the decade prior to the civil war. He resigned from that office in 1861 and was appointed to 3 separate positions in Jefferson Davis' cabinet.
He was first appointed to the position of Attorney General where Davis called him ""a master of law and the most accomplished statesman I have ever known." Later he was chosen to be Davis' Secretary of War, then later he became Secretary of State for the CSA. After the fall of the CSA government Benjamin escaped to the Bahamas and then went on to England where he became a prominent, and very wealthy, lawyer.
More about Benjamin HERE
Oh, I know all about Mr. Benjamin. Truth be told, I've been fascinated by the Confederacy and Mr. Benjamin ever since I read Mr. Benjamin's Sword. Painted a very different picture of the Confederacy for me than what I learned in school. Later research showed me that, while undoubtedly racist, 19th century Southern States were -not- anti-Semitic. In fact, Jews seemed to integrate much better there than the North and were accepted as part of the community. In fact, it was only until well after the War that the South began to turn anti-semitic for the next few decades. Largely related to the rise of the KKK probably. I continue to study it idly every now and again. The problem was, since the major wave of Jewish immigration (at least numerically) came in the 19teens and 1920s, the Jews remember that period, and not the good ol' days (so to speak). Cultural imprint that's hard to change.
But with proper education and access to a full spectrum of sources, it's not an unfeasible longterm goal. ;)