Jefferson Davis

**Jefferson Davis**
	President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1808–1889) Photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1861
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Name in native language	Jefferson Davis;
Date of birth	3 June 1808; Fairview (Christian County, Kentucky, United States); Jefferson Finis Davis
Date of death	6 December 1889; New Orleans (Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States)
Manner of death	natural causes;
Place of burial	Hollywood Cemetery (unknown value – );
Country of citizenship	United States (1808–1861); Confederate States of America (1861–1865); United States (1868–);
Educated at	United States Military Academy (Bachelor of Science, 1824–1828); Jefferson College; Transylvania University;
Occupation	military officer; politician; businessman; political writer; writer;
Employer	Carolina Life Insurance Company (1869–1873);
Member of political party	Democratic Party;
Position held	President of the Confederate States (1861–1865); United States Secretary of War (1853–1857); United States representative (1845–1846); United States senator (1847–1849); United States senator (1849–1851); United States senator (1851–1851); United States senator (1857–1859); United States senator (1859–1861); board member (1847–1851);
Native language	English;
Significant event	American Civil War;
Father	Samuel Emory Davis;
Mother	Jane Cooke;
Sibling	Joseph Emory Davis;
Child	Varina Anne Davis; Margaret Howell Davis Hayes;
Spouse	Sarah Knox Taylor (1835–1835); Varina Davis (1845–1889);
Relative	Joseph R. Davis (nephew);
Notable work	A Short History of the Confederate States of America; The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government;
Award received	Davis Guards Medal;
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Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.

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Davis, photographed by Mathew Brady
Cropped version of Mathew Brady photo
Davis on an 1863 Confederate stamp
Painting by Daniel Huntington (1874)
From J.D. Richardson's Messages and Papers of Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy (1904)
From The New Student's Reference Work (1914)
Davis giving his 1861 inaugural address at the Alabama capitol in Montgomery
Stone Mountain, depicting Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis
U.S. stamp depicting the Stone Mountain memorial upon its dedication in 1970
Davis imprisoned in Fort Monroe (1865, by Alfred R. Wauld)
Confederate War Memorial in Dallas, Texas
Statue at the National Statue Hall, by Augustus Lukeman
Statue on his gravestone in the Hollywood Cemetery