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Benjamin Franklin Cameron


Benjamin Franklin Cameron (December 14, 1890 – April 3, 1964) was a United States federal judge.

Born in Meridian, Mississippi, Cameron received an A.B. from the University of the South in 1911 and an LL.B. from Cumberland University in 1914. He was in private practice in Meridian from 1914 to 1955, except during his service as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi from 1929 to 1933.

On February 18, 1955, Cameron was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated by Edwin Ruthven Holmes. Cameron was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 14, 1955, and received his commission on March 16, 1955. He served in that capacity until his death, in 1964.


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