Benjamin Joseph Webb (aka Benedict Joseph Webb; February 25, 1814 – August 2, 1897) was a Catholic editor, state senator for Kentucky, and historian. Webb was born in Bardstown, Kentucky, to a father who was a 1774 pioneer to that state. He was educated at St. Joseph's College in Bardstown, but left at an early age to learn the printer's trade. He took a position as foreman of the office of the Journal, a newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky. It was while he was a foreman in 1836 that the Rev. Dr. Reynolds (his former teacher and later Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina) persuaded him to head the Bardstown publication the Catholic Advocate. Webb accepted the assignment and worked along with Bishops Spalding, David, and Benedict Joseph Flaget. Webb moved the office of the Catholic Advocate t