1. Benjamin Muse was an American lawyer, soldier, diplomat, farmer, newspaper publisher, author and politician.
15 Facts About Benjamin Muse
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Benjamin Muse briefly served as a member of the Virginia Senate.
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Later, Muse lived in Manassas, Virginia, from where he opposed and chronicled the Massive Resistance crisis fostered by US Senator Harry F Byrd and Richmond newspaperman James J Kilpatrick as they fomented opposition to the United States Supreme Court decisions in Brown v Board of Education which overturned racial segregation in public schools.
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Benjamin Muse was born in Durham, North Carolina, on April 17,1898.
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Benjamin Muse was raised in Petersburg, Virginia and attended Trinity College.
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Benjamin Muse held various diplomatic posts in Europe and Latin America.
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Benjamin Muse served in the Adjutant General Corps, assigned to Washington, DC until 1945, and retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
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Benjamin Muse changed parties because he came to oppose President Roosevelt's New Deal.
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In 1941, Benjamin Muse became the Republican Party's nominee for Governor of Virginia.
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Benjamin Muse founded and published a local newspaper, the Manassas Messenger, selling it in 1950 but continuing a related printing business until 1966.
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Benjamin Muse criticized the NAACP for pushing for rapid school desegregation, especially in Prince Edward County.
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Benjamin Muse wrote about Southern affairs in The Nation and The New Republic.
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For four years Benjamin Muse toured the South urging voluntary compliance with court desegregation orders.
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Benjamin Muse published his first book, Virginia's Massive Resistance in 1961, and Ten Years of Prelude in 1964.
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Benjamin Muse died at his home two decades later, and was interred at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church cemetery in Prince William County.