Raphael Jacob Moses (1812–1893) was an American lawyer, plantation owner, Confederate officer and politician.

[1][2][3][4] His family fought in the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783, and he was a fifth-generation South Carolinian.

[1] He pioneered the commercial growing of peaches on his plantation, becoming of the first merchants to ship them to the North (New York City) in 1851.

[1] During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he served as the chief commissary officer for Generals Robert Toombs and James Longstreet in the Confederate States Army (CSA).

Shortly after he was elected, he declared, "I wanted to go to congress as a Jew and because I...would have liked in a public position to confront and do my part towards breaking down the prejudice."

He added, "I feel it an honor to be of a race whom persecution can not crush, whom prejudice has in vain endeavored to subdue.