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Real Name |
Jefferson F. Davis |
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Born |
June 3, 1808 |
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Died |
December 6, 1889 |
Origin[]
Jefferson F. Davis was an American politician and the only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. Born in Kentucky and raised in Mississippi, he attended West Point and served six years in the U.S. Army. He married twice—first to Sarah Knox Taylor, who died shortly after their wedding, and then to Varina Howell. Davis served in the U.S. House of Representatives, fought in the Mexican–American War, held a U.S. Senate seat, and was Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce. He resigned from the Senate in 1861 when Mississippi seceded and led the Confederacy during the Civil War. Captured in 1865, he was imprisoned for two years without trial and later became a symbol of the Lost Cause in the South.
Public Domain Appearances[]
All published works and appearances of Jefferson Davis from before January 1, 1931 are public domain in the US.
Some notable appearances are listed below:
Public Domain Works[]
- The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, 1881
- The Doctrine of State Rights, 1890
- A short history of the Confederate States of America, 1890
- “Zachary Taylor” in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914, 1914.
Speeches[]
- Speech at the Portland Serenade, 1858
- Speech at Belfast Encampment, 1858
- Speech to the Mississippi State Democratic Convention, 1859
- Inaugural Address, 1861
- Farewell Address to the Senate, 1861
- Message to the Second Session of the Provisional Confederate Congress, 1861
- Message to the Third Session of the Provisional Confederate Congress, 1861
- Message to the Fifth Session of the Provisional Confederate Congress, 1861
- Message to the First Session of the First Confederate Congress, 1862
- Message to the Second Session of the First Confederate Congress, 1862
- Message to the Third Session of the First Confederate Congress, 1863
- Message to the Fourth Session of the First Confederate Congress, 1863
- Message to the First Session of the Second Confederate Congress, 1864
- Message to the Second Session of the Second Confederate Congress, 1864
Letters[]
- Letter to Sarah Knox Taylor, 1834, upon his beau agreeing to marry him.
- Letter to J. D. Corse, 1867.
- Letter to Varina Howell Davis, 1862, to his wife about a recent visit home.
- Letter to Pope Pius IX, 1863, regarding the war.
- “Letter from President Davis,” in the Southern Historical Society Papers Volume 1, March 1876, to Hon. James Lyons, January 27, 1876, regarding the treatment of prisoners.
- “Patriotic Letters of Confederate Leaders,” in the Southern Historical Society Papers Volume 2, July 1876, reply to Robert Edward Lee regarding his offer of resignation.
Public Domain Literary Appearances[]
- A Southern Manifesto, as it appeared in the 1859 New York Tribune
- Inauguration of the President of the Southern Confederacy, as it appeared in the 1861 New York Times
- "Davis, Jefferson," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- Jefferson Davis Memorial Address, 1889 by Charles Minnigerode
- "Davis, Jefferson," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
- "Jefferson Davis's Camel Experiment" by Walter Lynwood Fleming in Popular Science Monthly, 74 (February 1909)
- Jefferson Davis: A Judicial Estimate (1908) by Charles Betts Galloway
- "Davis, Jefferson," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Davis, Jefferson," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
Public Domain Comic Appearances[]
- It Really Happened #7
- True Comics #49, 81
- Popular Comics #26