Jefferson Davis

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Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States of America
Born	1807-1808
Died	1889

Jefferson Davis was born in Kentucky on or around June 3, 1808 (actual date not certain). Davis was born into a military family, his father having served in the Revolutionary War, and in 1828 He married Sarah Tailor and Varina Howell (but not at the same time). He was appointed to the United States Military Academy. He served in the military from 1831 until 1835 when he resigned and settled in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Jefferson Davis is best known as the only president of the Confederate States of America. Davis did not get involved in politics until 1843 at the age of 35. He was elected to U.S. Congress in 1845 and resigned in 1846 to re-enter the army during the Mexican War. He continued in this service until 1847 when he was appointed by the governor of Mississippi to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate.

After the Confederate defeat in the American Civil War Davis was stripped of his US citizenship, which was posthumously restored by President Carter in 1978. [1]

A controversial plaque on the wall of a The Bay department store in Montréal commemorates a visit to the city by Davis.

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