Benjamin Morgan Palmer

Benjamin Morgan Palmer (January 25, 1818 – May 28, 1902)[1] was a Presbyterian minister and theologian in the United States.

[3] Palmer was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1818 and became a minister in the Southern Presbyterian church.

[4] The PCUS was formed by secession from the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1861 as a result of the American Civil War.

He advocated heavily for the secession of Louisiana from the United States to join the Confederacy, with his notorious "Thanksgiving Sermon" serving as a major catalyst for the Confederate movement.

Palmer Park in New Orleans was named after him during Jim Crow, but due to his racist background was renamed after Ellis Marsalis Jr. on July 1, 2021.