Their President, Jefferson Davis, interpreted their Constitution to mean that it `` admits of no coerced association '', but this remained so doubtful that `` there were frequent demands that the right to secede be put into the Constitution ''.

The Confederacy selected Jefferson Davis as its provisional President on February 9, 1861.

Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.

He was first educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where he met fellow student Jefferson Davis.

Early in the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis decided that the Confederacy would attempt to hold as much of its territory as possible and he distributed its military forces around its borders and coasts.

Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.

This delay allowed Jefferson Davis finally to send reinforcements from the garrisons of coastal cities and another highly rated but prickly general, Braxton Bragg, to help organize the western forces.

* Woodworth, Steven E. Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West.

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

" As southern Senators began to express their intent to resign their seats, Johnson reminded Sen. Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy's future leader, that if his coalition would only hold to their seats, the Democrats would control the Congress, and thus better defend the South's interests.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

Also, as in the previous war, Pike came into conflict with his superior officers, at one point drafting a letter to Jefferson Davis complaining about his direct superior.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

* 1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.

He was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where his classmates included five future Democratic senators ( Solomon Downs of Louisiana, Jesse Bright of Indiana, George W. Jones of Iowa, Edward Hannegan of Indiana, and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi ).

* 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

* 1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia.

* 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.

* 1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

* 1808 – Jefferson Davis, American politician, President of the Confederate States of America ( d. 1889 )

Jefferson Finis Davis ( June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889 ) was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history.

Davis went on to Jefferson College at Washington, Mississippi in 1818, and then to Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky in 1821.

Wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell, 1845

In 1805 President Thomas Jefferson considered possessing Cuba for strategic reasons, sending secret agents to the island to negotiate with Governor Someruelos.

" Jefferson considered himself an Epicurean.

As governor he considered using the Virginia militia to force the outcome in favor of Jefferson.

In hindsight, the Louisiana Purchase could be considered one of Thomas Jefferson ’ s greatest contributions to the United States.

* James Madison: American politician and protege of Jefferson considered to be “ Father of the Constitution ” and “ Father of the Bill of Rights ” of the United States.

Along with Thomas Jefferson, Roosevelt is often considered the most well read of any American politician.

Despite his complaints that the house was too big (" big enough for two emperors, one pope, and the grand lama in the bargain "), Jefferson considered how the White House might be added to.

Both Jefferson and George Washington considered the avenue an important feature of the new capital.

Even though Lewis and Clark had only traveled a narrow portion of the upper Missouri River drainage and part of the Columbia River drainage, these were considered the two major rivers draining most of the Rocky Mountains, and the expedition confirmed that there was no " easy " route through the northern Rocky Mountains as Jefferson had hoped.

Jefferson considered much furniture to be a waste of space, so the dining room table was erected only at mealtimes, and beds were built into alcoves cut into thick walls that contain storage space.

Together with Grainger and Jefferson counties, it is part of the Morristown, Tennessee, Metropolitan Statistical Area which is, as of December 2005, considered a component of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette, TN, Combined Statistical Area.

Together with Hamblen and Jefferson counties, it is part of the Morristown, Tennessee, Metropolitan Statistical Area which is, as of December 2005, considered a component of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette, TN, Combined Statistical Area.

Jefferson Parish is considered part of the Greater New Orleans Area.

miles is split between Jefferson and Lewis counties and is considered to be one of the oldest areas in New York which borders the Adirondacks.

Whereas Eliot used " masks " to distance himself from aspects of modern life which he found degrading and repulsive, Pound's personae were poets and could be considered in good part alter-egos who are to be dissociated from " characters " like Malatesta, John Adam, Confucius, or Thomas Jefferson that we find in Pound's later poetry, The Cantos.

" Jefferson, who noted that " Col. Taylor and myself have rarely, if ever, differed in any political principle of importance ," considered Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated " the most logical retraction of our governments to the original and true principles of the Constitution creating them, which has appeared since the adoption of the instrument.

Despite a consensus of European monarchs who considered the treaty nullified by the execution of King Louis XVI during the French Revolution, President George Washington sided with his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and declared the treaty would remain in effect, despite the regime change in France.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis issued orders to the Confederate States Army that Hunter was to be considered a " felon to be executed if captured ".

A naming contest held by the Siskiyou Daily News in November 1941 considered the possibilities for the would be state: Orofino, Bonanza, Discontent, Jefferson, Del Curiskiyou, and Siscurdelmo.

The record was released in early 1968, at a time when there was a receptive audience for “ underground music ” which combined musical experimentalism with radical social and / or political lyrics – other examples, in their very different ways, including the Velvet Underground ( who shared a common background in the New York experimental music scene ; according to Moskowitz, Nico at one point tried to join the USA ), Frank Zappa ( whom Byrd considered a niche-marketer " subsumed in a self-referential loop "), Love ’ s Forever Changes, Country Joe and the Fish, and Jefferson Airplane.

Its borders are generally considered to be the circular road around the armory ( Jefferson Street ) to the south, Onondaga Creek to the west, Washington Street to the north, and Clinton Street to the east.

Still, Jefferson was considered a rising star in Louisiana politics, with some even suggesting he would be his state's second African-American governor.

Except for a few excursions into politics — he was a member of Philadelphia's Common Council ( 1789 ) and, as a stalwart Federalist who considered the election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800 a " great subversion ;' he ran unsuccessfully for Vice President on the Federalist ticket in 1812 — his public career centered on legal affairs.

McDonald — who considered himself a traditional Democrat " cut from the cloth of Jefferson and Jackson "— was known for his conservative views, even by Southern standards.