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Biography of Benjamin Helm Bristow
Name: Benjamin Helm Bristow
Birth Date: June 20, 1832
Death Date: June 22, 1896
Place of Birth: Elkton, Kentucky, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: secretary of the treasury, lawyer
Benjamin Helm Bristow
Benjamin Helm Bristow (1832-1896) was an American lawyer, Kentucky unionist, and Federal official. As U.S. attorney in Kentucky, he fought the Ku Klux Klan, and as U.S. secretary of the Treasury, he crushed the Whiskey Ring.On June 20, 1832, Benjamin H. Bristow was born in Elkton, Ky. His choice of career and politics was influenced by his father, a lawyer and Whig unionist who served in the U.S. Congress. Bristow graduated from Jefferson College in Pennsylvania in 1851, read law in his father's office, and was admitted to the bar in 1853. When Kentucky was torn apart by the outbreak of the Civil War, Bristow raised a regiment for the Union--the 25th Kentucky Infantry--and became its lieutenant colonel. He was wounded at Shiloh but returned to service as lieutenant colonel and then colonel of the 8th Kentucky Cavalry.The need for Union men in the Kentucky Legislature brought him …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…collected more than ,000,000 in back taxes.Because Bristow's activities endangered members of Grant's inner circle, these men forced his resignation in June 1876. Meanwhile Bristow had emerged as the 1876 presidential candidate of Reform Republicans, but he fell short of the nomination. In 1878 he formed a distinguished law firm in New York. Bristow was elected the second president of the American Bar Association a year later. He died suddenly of appendicitis at his home in New York on June 22, 1896. Further Reading A full-length biography of Bristow is Ross A. Webb, Benjamin Helm Bristow: Border State Politician (1969). An excellent account of his activities in wartime and postwar Kentucky is in E. Merton Coulter, The Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky (1926). Two large histories of the Grant administration discuss Bristow's prosecution of the Whiskey Ring: William B. Hesseltine, Ulysses S. Grant: Politician (1935), and Allan Nevins, Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration (1936).
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