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.

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.

Johnston wanted Major, later Lt. Gen., Alexander P. Stewart to command the forts but President Davis appointed Brig.

* 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 ).

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

* 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.

On February 9, 1861, after Davis resigned from the United States Senate, he was selected to be the provisional President of the Confederate States of America ; he was elected without opposition to a six-year term that November.

" On May 17, 1847, President James K. Polk offered Davis a Federal commission as a brigadier general and command of a brigade of militia.

Jefferson Davis is sworn in as President of the Confederate States of America on February 18, 1861, on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol.

Davis " was the champion of a slave society and embodied the values of the planter class, and thus was chosen Confederate President by acclamation.

President Davis met with his Confederate Cabinet for the last time on May 5, 1865, in Washington, Georgia, and the Confederate government was officially dissolved.

Jefferson Davis, Confederate President.

Jefferson Davis, Volume II: Confederate President.

Determined to offer the repeal to congress that Monday but reluctant to act without Pierce ’ s commitment, Douglas arranged through Secretary of War Davis to meet with President Pierce on Sunday even though Pierce generally refrained from conducting any business on a Sunday.

Nancy Davis Reagan ( born Anne Frances Robbins ; July 6, 1921 ) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

* 1861 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war.

During the Civil War, Lee originally served as a senior military adviser to President Jefferson Davis.

When President Andrew Jackson was leaving the Capitol out of the East Portico after the funeral of South Carolina Representative Warren R. Davis, Richard Lawrence, an unemployed and deranged housepainter from England, either burst from a crowd or stepped out from hiding behind a column and aimed a pistol at Jackson which misfired.

In the above mentioned report of the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the basic outlook of the new breed of lay faculty emerges very clearly in the very statement of the problem as the members see it: `` Even with the best of intentions he ( the President of the university ) is loath to delegate such authority and responsibility to a group the membership of which, considered ( as it must be by him ) in individual terms, is inhomogeneous, mortal and of extremely varying temperament, interests and capabilities.

Bozizé has since been elected President in an election considered by observers to be fair and free.

President Aylwin served from 1990 to 1994, in what was considered a transition period.

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

In such a case the President is often the COO and is considered to be more focused upon daily operations compared to the CEO which is supposed to be the visionary.

They often appear in various hierarchical layers such as Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President, Associate Vice President, or Assistant Vice President, with EVP usually considered the highest and usually reporting to the CEO or President.

Richard Nixon, then President, spoke of Eisenhower, Some men are considered great because they lead great armies or they lead powerful nations.

Since this is a common occurrence, if Atchison is considered President, so must every Vice President whose inauguration preceded that of the President if the President was sworn in after noon on Inauguration Day.

Therefore, while one could argue that Atchison was theoretically President for a few minutes ( though even this much is highly debatable ), claims that he should be considered an official President are surely disputable.

Roosevelt was deeply committed to conserving natural resources, and is considered to be the nation's first conservation President.

These statements, soon dubbed " esternazioni ", or " mattock blows " ( picconate ), were considered by many to be inappropriate for a President and, often, beyond his constitutional powers ; also, his mental health was doubted and Cossiga had to declare " I am the fake madman who speaks the truth.

On October 1983, during the U. S. invasion of Grenada, U. S. President Ronald Reagan maintained that US Marines arrived on the island of Grenada, which was considered a Soviet-Cuban ally that would export communist revolution throughout the Caribbean.

The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln, considered one of the most well known in American history.

The governor of New York is often considered a potential candidate for President.

The CSCE was widely considered in Finland as a possible means of reducing tensions of the Cold War, and a personal triumph for President Urho Kekkonen.

After withdrawing from the race, he was still considered a contender for the Vice President nomination.

The election of his daughter Indira as Congress President in 1959 aroused criticism for alleged nepotism, although actually Nehru had disapproved of her election, partly because he considered it smacked of " dynastism "; he said, indeed it was " wholly undemocratic and an undesirable thing ", and refused her a position in his cabinet.