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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.
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 ...
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 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 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.
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In the first year of the Provisional Congress, opposition stemmed from personal and philosophical differences with Jefferson Davis. Davis spoke in states' rights terms, but his actions were increasingly nationalist from early on, and he freely used his veto power against bills meant to limit national policy in a way that led to charges of ...
The Davis we knew will never be the same, and more, in this week’s Bee Opinionated newsletter. Bee Opinionated: Death in Davis + Raising the roof + Feinstein’s failures + Bring Tice home Skip ...