The president of the Confederate States was the head of state and head of government of the unrecognized breakaway Confederate States of America. The president was the chief executive of the federal g
Jefferson Davis 1862
Confederate election ballot, Virginia, November 6, 1861
Inauguration of Jefferson Davis at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, 1861
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Jefferson F. Davis was the only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, leading the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Before the war, he was a member of the Democratic Party wh
President of the Confederate States of America
…College to a six-year term, and was one of two nationally elected Confederate officers, the other being the vice president. On February 18, 1861, Jefferson Davis became president of the provisional government, as well as the only person to assume the position. On February 22, 1862, he became president of the…
Davis in 1859
1825 West Point class register listing Davis
Slave cabins at Brierfield, etching by Alfred R. Waud for Harper's Weekly (1866)
Daguerreotype wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell (1845)