The Targum Sheni gives his genealogy in more detail, as follows: " Mordecai, son of Ya ' ir, son of Shim ' i, son of Shmida, son of Baana, son of Eila, son of Micah, son of Mephibosheth, son of Jonathan, son of Saul, son of Kish, son of Aviel, son of Tzror, son of Bechorath, son of Aphiah, son of Sh ' charim, son of Uziah, son of Sheshak, son of Michael, son of Elyael, son of Amihud, son of Shephatya, son of Psuel, son of Pison, son of Malikh, son of Jerubaal, son of Yerucham, son of Chananya, son of Zavdi, son of Elpo ' al, son of Shimri, son of Zecharya, son of Merimoth, son of Hushim, son of Sh ' chora, son of ' Azza, son of Gera, son of Benjamin, son of Jacob the firstborn, whose name is called Israel.

In the Blessing of Jacob, Benjamin is referred to as a ravenous wolf ; traditional interpretations often considered this to refer to the might of a specific member of the tribe, either the champion Ehud, king Saul, or Mordecai of the Esther narrative, or in Christian circles, the apostle Paul.

As part of the kingdom of Judah, Benjamin survived the destruction of Israel by the Assyrians, but instead was subjected to the Babylonian captivity ; when the captivity ended, the distinction between Benjamin and Judah was lost in favour of a common identity as Israel, though in the biblical book of Esther, Mordecai is referred to as being of the tribe of Benjamin, and as late as the time of Christ some still identified their Benjamite ancestry.

Nathan ben Reuben David Spira, Menahem Azariah Fano, Baruch Abraham ben Elhanan David Foa, Hezekiah ben Isaac Foa, Isaac ben Vardama Foa, Israel Nissim Foa, Israel Solomon Longhi. Isaiah Mordecai ben Israel Hezekiah Bassani, Israel Benjamin ben Isaiah Bassani, Elhanan David Carmi, Benjamin ben Eliezer ha-Kohen, Joshua ben Raphael Fermi, Moses Benjamin Foa, Abram Michael Fontanella, Judah Ḥayyim Fontanella, Israel Berechiah Fontanella, Raphael Jehiel Sanguinetti.

" Also in Esther 2: 5-6, we find that the name " Jew " is given to a man from the tribe of Benjamin: " There was a man a Yehudi ( Judean / Jewish man ) in Shushan the capital, whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish, a Benjamite ; who had been exiled from Jerusalem with the exile that was exiled with Jeconiah, king of Judah, which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had exiled.

" The Jewish signers included Benjamin Levy, David Franks, Samson Levy, Hyman Levy, Jr., Mathias Bush, Moses Mordecai, Michael Gratz, and Barnard Gratz.

The roll of Jewish officers, Philadelphians, who served with distinction during the Civil war includes the names of Morris J. Asch, Israel Moses, Alfred Mordecai, Jr., Frank Marx Etting, Justus Steinberger, Jonathan Manly Emanuel, Jacob Solis-Cohen, Max Einstein, Aaron Lazarus, Max Friedman, Joseph L. Moss, William Moss, Lyon Levy Emanuel, Isaac M. Abraham, Adolph G. Rosengarten, John Trencher, Joseph G. Rosengarten, and Benjamin J.

Agrippina landing at Brundisium with the ashes of Germanicus, ( 1768, Benjamin West, oil on canvas ). In art, Agrippina has served as a symbol of marital devotion and fidelity.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

In 1998, Pensacola Christian College produced a widely distributed videotape, arguing that this " leaven of fundamentalism " was passed from the 19th-century Princeton theologian Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 – 1921 ) to Charles Brokenshire ( 1885 – 1954 ), who served BJU as Dean of the School of Religion, and then to current BJU faculty members and graduates.

Carreras ' father, Benjamin Nunez, also served as the Costa Rican ambassador to Israel.

Men such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson espoused its tenets, while at the same time arguing that religion served the useful purpose of " social control ".

Benjamin Wilson was also a well known Indian fighter who served as justice of the peace for the Mexican authorities and it was while hunting down renegade Indians that he discovered what is present day Big Bear, California which received that name because Wilson and his posse lassoed and killed over thirty grizzly bears while passing through.

Carreras ' father, Benjamin Nunez, also served as the Costa Rican ambassador to Israel.

Despite a defence campaign backed by the likes of George Orwell, Michael Tippett, T. S. Eliot, and Benjamin Britten, Vernon, Sansom and Hewetson were convicted and served nine months in jail.

Morton was elected Vice President of the United States, on the Republican ticket with President Benjamin Harrison, in which capacity he served from March 4, 1889 to March 4, 1893.

Others say it was named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Gilmer County's last sole commissioner was Benjamin N. Whitaker who served from 1973 until 1988.

The home of Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, known as " The Sycamores ", served as a dormitory for the college from 1915 – 1970.

It was named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln, who served in the American Army during the Revolutionary War.

He had previously joined the Conservative Party and served under Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Salisbury as Under-Secretary of State for War.

Both the city and the county were named for General Benjamin Lincoln, who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

While the original settlers are not known for certain, early records and deeds mention the following: William and Jacob Waterhouse ( of Kennebunk ), Love Roberts, Alexander Grant, Thomas Lord, Jacob Rhoades, Benjamin and Mark Goodwin ( brothers who built one of the first mills at Goodwin's Mills ), John Low ( who served as town moderator and treasurer ), John Burbank, Joseph Witten, James and William Brock, Mark Ricker, Robert Cousens, Valentine Hill, and Gershom Downs.

The city was named after William Windom, who served as a United States Senator from Minnesota from 1881 – 1883, and was United States Secretary of the Treasury under presidents James Garfield, Chester Arthur and Benjamin Harrison, by Judson W. Bishop.

* Benjamin Morgan Palmer, 19th century Presbyterian minister, made Hazlehurst his family's home in the summer of 1862 as he served as chaplain with the Washington Artillery of New Orleans.

One of South Hampton's only members of the New Hampshire State Senate was Benjamin Barnard, who served from 1806-1808.

Benjamin Civiletti served as Attorney General from 1979 to 1981.

In the phrase " One-nation Tory " of " one-nation Toryism " it originated with Benjamin Disraeli ( 1804-1881 ), who served as the chief Conservative spokesman and Prime Minister after 1852.

The city and the county were named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln, who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

His two brothers, William and Benjamin, Jr., each served for much of the war and reached the rank of Captain.

The city of Benjamin is served by the Benjamin Independent School District and home to the Benjamin High School Mustangs.

Benjamin Fraser works for JPMorgan, Damian Fraser is the managing director of the investment banking firm UBS AG ( formerly S. G. Warburg ) in Mexico, and Orlando Fraser is a barrister specializing in commercial law ( Wroe ).

Entrepreneur and business executive alumni include Safra Catz ( President of Oracle Corporation ), David L. Cohen ( executive Vice-President of Comcast and former Chief of Staff to Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, Scott Mead, former partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs, Peter Detkin ( co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, and former Vice-President and assistant general counsel at Intel ), Paul Haaga ( Vice Chairman of Capital Research and Management Company, a constituent company of the Capital Group Companies ), Sam Hamadeh ( founder of Vault. com ), Edward Benjamin Shils ( professor and founder of the first research center for entrepreneurial studies in the world ( at Wharton )), Gigi Sohn ( founder of Public Knowledge ), and Henry Silverman ( CEO of Cendant Corporation ).

As of 2010 Frazier is still the editor and Benjamin Radford is the managing editor.

When Simeon Benjamin died in September 1868, the president of the college, Dr. Cowles, assumed the task of managing the school's monetary affairs.

* Benjamin Lee ( politician ), managing director of the City and County of Honolulu

Four prominent California leaders — University of California president Benjamin Ide Wheeler, San Francisco Chronicle managing editor John P. Young, San Francisco Normal School ( later San Francisco State University ) president Frederick Burk, and William P. Lawler, a judge who later became a California Supreme Court Justice — cofounded the organization with Adams.

Benjamin was a local news reporter from 1976 until 1996, being a television anchorman and managing editor for markets as diverse as Knoxville, TN, ( where his youngest son's birth was announced on-air ) Quad-Cities, IA, San Antonio, TX, Toledo, OH, Roanoke, VA, and was the news director for Waterbury, CT's WATR.

Though Post editor-in-chief Benjamin C. Bradlee gets most of the credit, managing editor Howard Simons and Rosenfeld worked most closely with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on developing the story.

* 1974 – Benjamin Eicher, Swiss director

In 2007, the Franklin Institute awarded the director of SNO Art McDonald with the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.

Benjamin Edward " Ben " Stiller ( born November 30, 1965 ) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, film director, and producer.

The choir is directed by Peter Phillips, currently also director of the Tallis Scholars and Benjamin Nicholas, director of music at Tewkesbury Abbey

* Benjamin Ross – film director.

* Benjamin Ross – film director.

The name of the little community, originally Section Thirteen, became Willow Springs, then became Depot Springs, because of its ties to the railroad, then Billings, in honor of a president of the Northern Pacific Company, and finally Cheney, Washington in honor of Benjamin P. Cheney, a director of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

Walter Benjamin Lantz ( April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994 ) was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and director, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.

He worked both as a director and actor in both films and television, and his appearances included such movies as The Spiral Staircase ( 1974 ), Private Benjamin ( 1980 ), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 ), and Baby Boom ( 1987 ).

* Bob Clark ( Benjamin " Bob " Clark ) ( 1941 – 2007 ), American director

Casting director Patrick Rush found the role of Ryan Atwood particularly hard to cast and only invited Benjamin McKenzie to an audition after Fox had made them aware of the young actor after his unsuccessful audition for a UPN sitcom.

Thomas Joscelyn quotes Daniel Benjamin, a former NSC staffer: " The report of the 9 / 11 Commission notes that the National Security staff reviewed the intelligence in April 2000 and concluded that the CIA's assessment of its intelligence on bin Laden and al-Shifa had been valid ; the memo to Clinton on this was cosigned by Richard Clarke and Mary McCarthy, the NSC senior director for intelligence programs, who opposed the bombing of al-Shifa in 1998.

Ebert said that " the touch that was used so well in director Penny Marshall's previous films Big and A League of Their Own are totally missing in Renaissance Man and this feels like a cross between Dead Poets Society and Private Benjamin but does not have the warmth or spirit of those films ".

Similarly, Brookings fellow and research director Benjamin Wittes is a member of the conservative Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law.

* Benjamin L. Armstrong, pastor, teacher, administrator, first executive director of National Religious Broadcasters

# Benjamin Pogrund, director of Yakar's Center for Social Concern in Jerusalem and member of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations World Conference against Racism, calls the law " unfair " from the Palestinian refugees ' point of view, but sees the unfairness as having happened in other places too.

In 1894, Benjamin Kelly of Kelly Brothers was appointed as a director of Everton.

Beyond his broadcasting and journalistic work, Greene was also known for his appreciation of beer and eventually became a director of the Greene King Brewery, originally established by his great-grandfather, Benjamin Greene, in 1799.

Michael Benjamin Bay ( born February 17, 1965 ) is an American film director and producer.

He came to the Argentine National Observatory ( today Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba ) in 1870, working as the senior assistant of the director Benjamin A. Gould.

While appearing in the role of Marie in a showcase production of Come Back, Little Sheba, Van Doren was seen by Phil Benjamin, a casting director at Universal International.