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| birth_date=January 25, 1818
| birth_date=January 25, 1818
| death_date=May 25, 1902 (aged 84)
| death_date=May 25, 1902 (aged 84)
| birth_place=[[Charleston]], [[South Carolina]], [United States|USA]]<br>
| birth_place=[[Charleston]], [[South Carolina]], [[United States|USA]]<br>
'''Alma mater''':
'''Alma mater''':
Amherst College ([[Massachusetts]])<br>
Amherst College ([[Massachusetts]])
[[University of Georgia]]<br>
[[University of Georgia]]<br>
Columbia Theological Seminary ([[Georgia]])
Columbia Theological Seminary ([[Georgia]])
'''Benjamin Morgan Palmer''' (January 25, 1818 – May 25, 1902) was a [[Presbyterian]] [[clergy]]man from [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]] who defended [[slavery]] and called in 1860 for secession from the Union of the southern states.
'''Benjamin Morgan Palmer''' (January 25, 1818 – May 25, 1902) was a [[Presbyterian]] [[clergy]]man from [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]] who defended [[slavery]] and called in 1860 for secession from the Union of the southern states.
==Biographical sketch==
Born in [[Charleston]], [[South Carolina]], Palmer in 1841 married the former Mary Augusta McConnell (1822-1888) in the capital city of [[Columbia]], South Carolina. He was educated at Amherst College in Amherst, [[Massachusetts]], and the [[University of Georgia]] at Athens, from which he graduated in 1838. He also graduated in 1841 from the Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, [[Georgia]]. He received the honorary Doctor of Divinity in 1852 from Oglethorpe College in Brookhaven, Georgia, and the honorary Doctor of Laws in 1870 from Westminster College in Fulton, [[Missouri]]. He was the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, first in [[Savannah]], Georgia, from 1841 to 1842 and then Columbia, South Carolina from 1843 to 1855. He also taught from 1853 to 1856 at his alma mater, the Columbia Theological Seminary. He was the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in New Orleans from 1856 until his death at the age of eighty-four in 1902.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-p/|title=Palmer, Benjamin Morgan|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 18, 2020}}</ref>
Born in [[Charleston]], [[South Carolina]], Palmer in 1841 married the former Mary Augusta McConnell (1822-1888) in the capital city of [[Columbia]], South Carolina. He was educated at Amherst College in Amherst, [[Massachusetts]], and the [[University of Georgia]] at Athens, from which he graduated in 1838. He also graduated in 1841 from the Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, [[Georgia]]. He received the honorary Doctor of Divinity in 1852 from Oglethorpe College in Brookhaven, Georgia, and the honorary Doctor of Laws in 1870 from Westminster College in Fulton, [[Missouri]]. He was the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, first in [[Savannah]], Georgia, from 1841 to 1842 and then Columbia, South Carolina from 1843 to 1855. He also taught from 1853 to 1856 at his alma mater, the Columbia Theological Seminary. He was the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in New Orleans from 1856 until his death at the age of eighty-four in 1902.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-p/|title=Palmer, Benjamin Morgan|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 18, 2020}}</ref>