|Benjamin Helm Bristow| |30th United States Secretary of the
Treasury| June 4, 1874 – June 20, 1876 |President||Ulysses S.
Grant| |Preceded by||William A. Richardson| |Succeeded by||Lot
M. Morrill| |1st Solicitor General of the United States|
|President||Ulysses S. Grant| |Succeeded by||Samuel F. Phillips|
June 20, 1832| Elkton, Kentucky, U.S. |Died||June 22, 1896 New
York City, U.S. |Political party||Whig, Republican| |Alma
mater||Jefferson College| |Allegiance||United States of America|
|Service/branch||United States Army| |Years of service||1861 -
1863| |Battles/wars||American Civil War Benjamin Helm Bristow
(June 20, 1832 – June 22, 1896) was an American lawyer and
Republican Party politician who served as the first Solicitor
General of the United States and as a U.S. Treasury Secretary.
As the United States first Solicitor General, Bristow aided
President Ulysses S. Grant and Attorney General Amos T. Akerman
vigorous and thorough prosecution and destruction of the Ku Klux
Klan in the Reconstructed South.