Davis, Jefferson

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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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Davis, Jefferson

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 Theodore Roosevelt

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

From American Men of Action by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Davis, Jefferson, 18, 19, 30, 262, 272, 284, 349.

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

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

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones

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

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