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Jefferson and Davis
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.
Jefferson Davis considered him the best general in the country ; this was two months before the emergence of Robert E. Lee as the pre-eminent general of the Confederacy.
* 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

Jefferson and Presidential
In the election of 1796, for instance, Federalist John Adams came in first, but because the Federalist electors divided their second vote amongst several Vice Presidential candidates, Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson came second.
In the United States Presidential election of 1800, sometimes referred to as the " Revolution of 1800 ", Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeated President John Adams.
Thompson and Meserve's Purchase contains a northern portion of the Presidential Range, including Mount Adams, the second highest mountain in New Hampshire at, and Mount Jefferson, the third highest peak at.
* March 4, 1801: Presidential inauguration of Thomas Jefferson
He collected many of the best of these articles and essays in such books as Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent ; The Search for a Usable Past and Other Essays in Historiography ; Freedom and Order: A Commentary on the American Political Scene ; The Commonwealth of Learning ; The Defeat of America: War, Presidential Power and the National Character ; and Jefferson, Nationalism, and the Enlightenment.
The compound consists of a Louisiana raised cottage-style plantation residence, a botanical garden, a former Confederate veterans home, a modern gift shop, a Confederate Soldier Museum, the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum, various outbuildings, and a historic Confederate cemetery, which includes the Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier.
Over the next few decades, a Jefferson Davis Gallery, gift shop, the Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier, and the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum were established on the grounds.
In 1998 the Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans opened the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library.
Jefferson Davis Presidential Library ; as it was later largely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, it had to be demolished.
As of the Spring of 2009, work has already started on rebuilding the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library.
Prior to Katrina, the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library maintained a collection of 12, 000 books on United States history, southern history, and history of the American Civil War.
Paha Ska, of Keystone, South Dakota | Keystone, SD, an Elder of the Oglala Sioux tribe holds an authentic Presidential Peace & Friendship Medallion from President Thomas Jefferson, 2001
The mountain is named after Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and is part of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains.
* James Stewart Polshek-designed the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas
** Jefferson Davis Presidential Library
Jefferson in the Presidential Range, the northern slopes of the Dartmouth Range, and the southern slopes of the Pliny Range.
The eastern terminus of NH 116 is at U. S. Route 2 ( the Presidential Highway ) in Jefferson.
The former Jefferson Davis Presidential Library
The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library is a library and museum in Mississippi with the purpose of preserving, housing and making available, the papers, records, artifacts and other historical materials of Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis.
On August 29, 2005, the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Beauvoir suffered heavy damage from the fierce wind and water of Hurricane Katrina.
* Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Home
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