Jefferson Finis Davis: Confederate States President

Jefferson Finis Davis

Jefferson Finis Davis was a politician who served as the first and last president of the Confederate States during the American Civil War. After graduating from the United States Military Academy, he became a hero in the Mexican-American War and deeply contributed to building the nation's infrastructure, promoting the survey of the transcontinental railroad as Secretary of War and as a U.S. Senator. He assumed the presidency of the Confederacy upon secession in 1861. Demonstrating leadership despite struggling with a disparity in material resources, he continued to advocate for Southern traditional rights and historical positions after serving time in prison following the war.

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Year	Jefferson Finis Davis
1808	Birth of Jefferson Finis Davis
1824	Pardon and Amnesty by President Andrew Johnson (John Finis Davis, Age: 15 years old)
1832	Battle of Antietam (Age: 23 years old)
1835	Admission to and Graduation from West Point (John Finis Davis, Age: 26 years old) Later Years at Beauvoir (John Finis Davis, Age: 27 years old)
1845	Retirement from the Army and Life as a Planter (John Finis Davis, Age: 36 years old) Marriage (John Finis Davis, Sarah Knox Taylor, Age: 36 years old)
1846	Mexican-American War (Age: 37 years old) Election to the United States House of Representatives (John Finis Davis, Age: 37 years old)
1847	Command of the Mississippi Rifles (John Finis Davis, Age: 38 years old)
1853	Service as a United States Senator (John Finis Davis, Age: 44 years old)
1861	American Civil War (Age: 52 years old) Black Hawk War (Age: 52 years old) Secession of Mississippi and Resignation as Senator (John Finis Davis, Age: 52 years old) Appointment as Secretary of War (John Finis Davis, Age: 52 years old) Assumption of Office as Provisional President of the Confederate States (John Finis Davis, Age: 52 years old)
1862	Relocation of the Confederate Government to Richmond (Age: 53 years old) Appointment of Robert E. Lee as Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia (Age: 54 years old)
1865	Flight and Arrest after Confederate Defeat (John Finis Davis, Age: 56 years old) Election as President of the Confederate States (John Finis Davis, Age: 56 years old) Involvement in the Maryland Campaign (Age: 56 years old)
1868	Indictment for Treason and Imprisonment at Fort Monroe (John Finis Davis, Age: 59 years old)
1870	Publication of "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" (Age: 61 years old)
1881	Fall of Richmond and Collapse of the Confederate Government (Age: 72 years old)
1889	Death of Jefferson Finis Davis (Age: 81 years old)

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Key Confederate Officers	Thomas Jonathan Jackson James Longstreet Joseph Egleston Johnston Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Braxton Bragg John Bell Hood Jubal Anderson Early Nathan Bedford Forrest John Brown Gordon
The Lee family	Robert E. Lee George Washington Custis Lee William Henry Fitzhugh Lee Fitzhugh Lee Robert Edward Lee Jr.
Southern politician	Jefferson Finis Davis Alexander Hamilton Stephens Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter John Cabell Breckinridge Judah Philip Benjamin John Henninger Reagan Wade Hampton III Francis Richard Lubbock Luke Pryor Blackburn Joseph Emerson Brown Alfred Holt Colquitt James Lawson Kemper Zebulon Baird Vance

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Jefferson Finis Davis: Confederate States President