Benjamin Franklin Saffold (1826–1889) was an American lawyer, politician and judge.
Benjamin's father had immigrated from Georgia in 1813 and had served as a frontier huntsman, lawyer and a constitutional delegate that brought Alabama into the Union.
Benjamin Saffold graduated from the University of Alabama in 1845 and was admitted to the bar in 1847.
During Reconstruction after the Civil War, he served as a judge of the circuit court[when?]
[2] In 1868, Governor William Hugh Smith appointed Saffold an associate of the Alabama Supreme Court.