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Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1808–1889)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 3 June 1808, 1808
- Died
- 6 December 1889, 1889
- Place of birth
- Fairview
- Place of death
- New Orleans
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Davis
- Father
- Samuel Emory Davis
- Mother
- Jane Cooke
- Spouse
- Sarah Knox Taylor, Varina Davis
- Sibling
- Joseph Emory Davis
- Occupation
- military officer, politician, businessperson, political writer, writer
- Position held
- President of the Confederate States, United States Secretary of War, United States representative, United States senator, United States senator, United States senator, United States senator, United States senator, board member
- Citizenship
- United States, Confederate States of America, United States
- Native language
- English
- Awards
- Davis Guards Medal
- allegiance
- Confederate States of America
- archives at
- Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, National Archives and Records Administration, Rice University, Louis Round Wilson Library, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Smithsonian Institution Archives
- artist files at
- Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library
- birth name
- Jefferson Finis Davis
- candidacy in election
- Confederate States presidential election
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The American Cyclopædia, Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, The New Student's Reference Work
- different from
- Jefferson Davis
- employer
- Carolina Life Insurance Company
- honorific prefix
- Excellency
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Spanish
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of political party
- Democratic Party
- military branch
- United States Army
- military, police or special rank
- major general, Colonel
- name in native language
- Jefferson Davis
- named after
- Thomas Jefferson
- nickname
- Jeff
- notable work
- A Short History of the Confederate States of America, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
- number of children
- 10
- place of burial
- Hollywood Cemetery, Metairie Cemetery
- place of detention
- Fort Monroe
- political ideology
- separatism
- relative
- Joseph R. Davis
- significant event
- American Civil War
- social classification
- slave owner
- topic's main category
- Category:Jefferson Davis
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
Subject of
- Präsidentenwahlen in der Union
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Davis, Jefferson
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Davis, Jefferson
- The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Davis, Jefferson
- The New Student's Reference Work/Davis, Jefferson
- Jefferson Davis
- Davis, Jefferson (03 June 1808?–06 December 1889), president of the Confederate States of America and U.S. senator
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