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Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson F. Davis was an American politician who served as the first and 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 Civil War. He was the United States Secretary of War from 1853 to 1857.
Photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1859
Photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1859
Daguerrotype wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell (1845)
Daguerrotype wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell (1845)
Watercolor of The Defeat of the Mexican Lancers by the Mississippi Rifles by Samuel Chamberlain (c. 1860)
Watercolor of The Defeat of the Mexican Lancers by the Mississippi Rifles by Samuel Chamberlain (c. 1860)
Daguerrotype of Representative Davis of the 29th U.S. Congress (c. 1846)
Daguerrotype of Representative Davis of the 29th U.S. Congress (c. 1846)
President of the Confederate States of America
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The president of the Confederate States was the head of state and head of government of the Confederate States. The president was the chief executive of the federal government and commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army and Navy.
President of the Confederate States of America
President of the Confederate States of America
Confederate election ballot, Virginia, November 6, 1861
Confederate election ballot, Virginia, November 6, 1861
Inauguration of Jefferson Davis at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, 1861
Inauguration of Jefferson Davis at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, 1861
Image: President Jefferson Davis
Image: President Jefferson Davis