Grand Old Partisan honors Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, born November 13th 1834. This merchant and attorney wrote editorials for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He resigned when that Democrat newspaper sided with the Confederates. At twenty-nine, he was elected to head B'nai B'rith.
In 1870, President Ulysses Grant appointed him consul to Romania, while that country was subject to the Ottoman Empire. His mission was to help defend Jews from their Turkish oppressors.
Rutherford Hayes consulted with Peixotto about multinational condemnations of racist massacres in East Europe. The President then named him consul in Lyon, France.
Named for Peixotto was a Liberty ship during WWII.
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Michael Zak is author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party, a history of GOP civil rights achievement.
Each day, Michael Zak's grandoldpartisan YouTube channel and Grand Old Partisan blog celebrate more than sixteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. And, see Speech Raves for audience feedback from his presentations in thirty-one states so far.
He also wrote the 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar.
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