He was the third Jewish Mayor of Aix-en-Provence and abandoned politics after the debacle of the antisemitic Dreyfus affair.

Benjamin Abram was born to a Jewish family on 23 September 1846 in Marseille.

[1][2] His father, Abraham Abram, was a businessman, and his mother was Précieuse Bédarrides.

[2] As a result, Jassuda Bédarrides (1804-1882), who served as the first Jewish Mayor of Aix-en-Provence from 1848 to 1849, was his maternal uncle.

He was educated at the Lycée Thiers in Marseille and studied the Law at the University of Aix-en-Provence.