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Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War .
Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart is a 1999 non-fiction book by Felicity Allen, published by the University of Missouri Press, about Jefferson Davis. The author argued that many existing works were overly critical and did not show positive aspects of Davis. [ 1 ]
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is a book written by Jefferson Davis, who served as President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of America and as an apologia for the causes that he believed led to and justified ...
A Short History of the Confederate States of America is a memoir written by Jefferson Davis, completed shortly before his death in 1889. Davis wrote most of this book while staying at Beauvoir along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi. The book is much less a Davis memoir than an articulation of the secession argument.
The book argued that Jefferson Davis had a performance in his office that would be equivalent to any other person in his position. [3] Francis B. Simkins, of the State Teachers College of Farmville, Virginia (now Longwood University ), argued that the belief expressed in this book differed from that of Burton J. Hendrick , who argued that the ...
A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Last Days of the Confederacy is a 1986 non-fiction book by Michael B. Ballard, published by the University Press of Mississippi.. The book describes the collapse of the Confederate States of America during the United States Civil War and the aftermath of the said collapse, among it the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Hattaway, Herman (1992-12-01). "Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour". Journal of American History.79 (3): 1178–1179.doi:10.2307/2080868. JSTOR 2080868. - The JSTOR page (when logged in) misidentifies the author as "Steven E. Woodworth" but the reviewer is actually Herman Hattaway, as identified on page 1179.
After Jefferson Davis later was selected as President of the Confederacy, he signed into law the legislation that would allow slaves to receive patent protection for their inventions. [12] On June 28, 1864, Montgomery, no longer a slave, filed a patent application for his device, but the patent office again rejected his application.