The secretary of war was a member of the U.S. Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration. A similar position, called either "Secretary at War" or "Secretary of War", had been appointed
Gilbert Stuart Major General Henry Dearborn 1913.793 Art Institute of Chicago
Swearing in of Dwight F. Davis as Secretary of War in 1925. Former secretaries John W. Weeks and Chief Justice William Howard Taft are standing beside him.
General Benjamin Lincoln restored
Henry Knox by Gilbert Stuart 1806
Jefferson Davis
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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
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…Georgia Zachary Taylor (1849–1850) 22 Charles Magill Conrad August 15, 1850 March 4, 1853 2 years, 201 days Whig Virginia Millard Fillmore (1850–1853) 23 Jefferson Davis March 7, 1853 March 4, 1857 3 years, 362 days Democratic Mississippi Franklin Pierce (1853–1857) 24 John B. Floyd March 6, 1857 December 29, 1860 3…
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)