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Ralph Benson (politician)

Ralph Benson (1773 – 23 October 1845) was a British politician.

Biography

Benson was one the first mixed-race Members of Parliament of the Parliament of Great Britain. His father Moses Benson was a British West Indies merchant who was involved in the Liverpool slave trade. His mother Judith Powell was a freed slave. She was classified as mulatto and was the mother of Moses Bensons four children. He sat for the constituency of Stafford.

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