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A
prominent slaveholder from Mississippi, Jefferson Davis served as
president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
He formerly held positions as U.S. senator and secretary of war under
Franklin Pierce (1852-56). On February 18, 1861, Davis was inaugurated
at Montgomery, Alabama, as president of the provisional Confederate
government; in 1862 he was elected to a six-year term. After the Confederacy's defeat in 1865, Davis was imprisoned for two years and indicted for treason but never brought to trial. He retired to Beauvoir, Mississippi and published his memoirs, Rise and Fall of The Confederate Government in 1881. |
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Portrait
of Jefferson Davis,
by Christian F. Schwerdt, c. 1875 Click
image to enlarge. |
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