Jefferson Davis
1808–89
American statesman. As senator, announced the secession of Mississippi from the Union in 1861; became president of the Confederacy in the same year. Remained president until the fall of the Confederacy and his own capture by unionists in 1865. Advocated an independent Southern American nation.
Source
DAB.
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
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