Davis, Jefferson

Cultural  

1. A political leader of the nineteenth century. He was a powerful cabinet officer in the 1850s. When his home state of Mississippi seceded from the Union (see secession), Davis left the Senate to join the government of the Confederacy. He served as president of the Confederacy throughout its existence.

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Example Sentences

Davis, Jefferson: compared with Benedict Arnold, 163; a repudiator, 220; and Calhoun's resolution as to slavery in the territories, 325; protests against admission of California, 338.

From Thomas Hart Benton by Roosevelt, Theodore

Davis, Jefferson, and Douglas, 189; and Kansas-Nebraska bill, 237-238;and Freeport doctrine, 399 ff.,

From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Johnson, Allen

Davis, Jefferson, at Chattanooga, 336; captured, 335, 344.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jones, Jenkins Lloyd

Davis, Jefferson, 139, 201-204, 213, 280, 303, 305, 306.

From American Men of Action by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Davis, Jefferson, his amiability, 24; a prisoner in Fortress Monroe, 246.

From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Taylor, Richard