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Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
This article is about the president of the Confederate States. For the governor of Arkansas, see Jefferson Davis (Arkansas politician). For other uses, see Jefferson Davis (disambiguation).
Jefferson Davis | |
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Photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1859 | |
| In office February 22, 1862 – May 5, 1865 Provisional: February 18, 1861 – February 22, 1862 | |
| Vice President | Alexander H. Stephens |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| In office March 4, 1857 – January 21, 1861 | |
| Preceded by | Stephen Adams |
| Succeeded by | Adelbert Ames (1870) |
| In office August 10, 1847 – September 23, 1851 | |
| Preceded by | Jesse Speight |
| Succeeded by | John J. McRae |
| In office March 7, 1853 – March 4, 1857 | |
| President | Franklin Pierce |
| Preceded by | Charles Conrad |
| Succeeded by | John B. Floyd |
| In office December 8, 1845 – October 28, 1846 Seat D | |
| Preceded by | Tilghman Tucker |
| Succeeded by | Henry T. Ellett |
| Born | Jefferson F. Davis (1808-06-03)June 3, 1808 Fairview, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | December 6, 1889(1889-12-06) (aged 81) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Resting place | Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Other political affiliations | Southern Rights |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 6, including Varina |
| Education | United States Military Academy |
| Signature | |
| Allegiance | United States Mississippi |
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| Years of service | |
| Rank | |
| Unit | 1st U.S. Dragoons |
| Commands | 1st Mississippi Rifles |
| Battles/wars | |
Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Ci A very nice book from private collection. Clean, tight, square copy with only light used wear. A very nice copy over all. NOT Ex-Library. Small Remainder. First Edition More Description For one brief period in history, from 1861 to 1865, there were two American presidents, one in the North and one in the South. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis led their nations through a bitter civil war which changed the course of American history. Both were brilliant. Both were patriots. Both were convinced they were right. Yet Abraham Lincoln is remembered as a beloved leader who preserved the Union and ended slavery, and Jefferson Davis is remembered merely as the head of a failed rebellion. In this, the first dual biography of the two leaders, Bruce Chadwick argues that one of several reasons why the North won and the South lost can be found in the drastically different characters of the two presidents. The electric and flexible personality of Lincoln enabled him to build coalitions among warring political factions and become one of the strongest and most successful presidents in U.S. history. The inability of the uncompromising Davis to do the same contributed to the South losing the war. There were other sharp differences between the two men This is the first comprehensive, heavily researched study to Jefferson Finis Davis was born on June 3, 1808, in Christian County, Kentucky, less than a hundred miles from where future U.S. president Abraham Lincoln would be born eight months later. Davis was one of ten children; his father owned an inn and was a veteran of the Revolutionary War (1775–1783). The family left Kentucky a few years later and Davis was raised on a small plantation in Mississippi. He returned to Kentucky to attend boarding school in Bardstown and subsequently studied at Jefferson College in Mississippi and Transylvania University in Kentucky before entering the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He finished twenty-third in his class in 1828 and was assigned to the 1st Infantry Regiment in Wisconsin. Davis missed the Black Hawk War (1832) due to illness—Lincoln, however, battled the Sac and Fox tribes as a member of the Illinois militia—but returned in time to escort the Indian chief into captivity. (Davis “treated us all with much kindness,” Black Hawk recalled in his autobiography.) He also returned in time to meet the daughter of his commanding officer, Virginia native and future U.S. president Zachary Taylor. Against Taylor’s objections, Davis and Sarah Knox Taylor married in 1835, but she died of malaria a few months later. Davis, having resigned his commission, followed the lead of his older brother Joseph and became a cotton farmer. He also entered politics as a Democrat, eventually winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1845, the same year he married Varina Howell. When the Mexican War began in 1846, Davis left Congress and accepted command of the 1st Mississippi Regiment. He served under his former father-in-law at the battles of Monterrey (1846) and Buena Vista (1847). At the latter engagement, Davis was wounded and won national acclaim for helping to repulse a charge by Mexican lances. “My daughter, sir, was a better judge of men than I was,” General Taylor reportedly tol .
-- Davis was incredibly wealthy; Lincoln was born in poverty
-- Davis was very well educated; Lincoln had less than a year of schooling in a log cabin
-- Davis was an acclaimed war hero; Lincoln was a militia captain who never saw battle Ironically, there were also striking similarities
-- Each was born in a log cabin
-- Each man's first love died ... within a month of each other
-- Each lost a young son during his presidency. Three of Lincoln's four children died before the age of nineteen; all three of Davis's sons died before the age of twenty-two
-- Both men were married to strong, aggressive women who weresnubbed and scorned by society women throughout the war.Early Years