February 18, 1861 to May 10, 1865
From 1801-1809 he was president.
Yes, Jefferson Davis, the former President of the Confederate States, was imprisoned in Fort Monroe, Virginia, after the Civil War. He was captured in 1865 and held there for two years. However, he did not serve time in a Maine prison; he was eventually released on bail in 1867.
Jefferson Davis was born June 3, 1808 and was elected provisional president of the Confederate states in February 1861. He would be 52 years old at that point. After winning regular elections in November of that year he would be 53 years of age.
He didn't run for president. He was appointed President of the C.S.A when the South seceded from the Union.
Jefferson Davis was appointed by the Confederate Congress to be the president of the Confederate States of America in 1861. At first he was the provisional president. Soon after, the Confederate Congress elected Davis to a six year term that could not be renewed. The Confederate Constitution called for a one term of six years for any Confederate president.
thomas Jefferson - third president - served from March 4, 1801 to March 3, 1809 (8 years)
because it was a tradition only to not serve more than 2 years as president
Jefferson Davis was born on June 3, 1808 and died on December 6, 1889. Jefferson Davis would have been 81 years old at the time of death or 207 years old today.
Jefferson Davis was president from 1861-1865
Jefferson Davis was incarcerated two years. He had been captured in north Florida two months after the South surrendered. He was imprisoned as he was the leader of the Confederacy that captured a Union fort in Charleston harbor.
1936 to 1945
the president serve for four years in the united states.