Son of a Moroccan-born Sephardic merchant, he became the first Jewish member of the U.S. Senate when Florida joined the Union, and built the state's first cross-peninsula railroad.
U.S. senator and railroad builder · 1810–1886
Son of a Moroccan-born Sephardic merchant, he became the first Jewish member of the U.S. Senate when Florida joined the Union, and built the state's first cross-peninsula railroad.
