Jefferson Finis Davis (born 3 June 1808 in Fairview, Kentucky, died 6 December 1889 in New Orleans, Louisiana), was the sole President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865 and thus the leader of the Southern states during the American Civil War, serving as the counterpart to President Abraham Lincoln. Prior to this, he had served in the United States as a Senator for Mississippi and, from 1853 to 1857, as Secretary of War in the Pierce administration. Davis was a member of the Democratic Party, an authentic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th-century original, exact date of the image unknown, historical
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Jefferson Finis Davis (born 3 June 1808 in Fairview, Kentucky, died 6 December 1889 in New Orleans, Louisiana), was the sole President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865 and thus the leader of the Southern states during the American Civil War, serving as the counterpart to President Abraham Lincoln. Prior to this, he had served in the United States as a Senator for Mississippi and, from 1853 to 1857, as Secretary of War in the Pierce administration. Davis was a member of the Democratic Party, an authentic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th-century original, exact date of the image unknown, historical

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