Andrew Johnson was a US Senator from TN and went on to be US president.
Jefferson Davis was Us Senator from Miss. and went on to be Confederate president.
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Jefferson F. Davis was the president of the Confederacy and prior to that he was a senator representing the state of Mississippi.
Yes- he was the only senator from a seceding state who did not resign his office, but remained loyal to the US.
He represented the state of Mississippi as a senator.Jefferson Davis was US Senator from Mississippi before he became the President of the confederate States of America..
Jefferson Davis was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi, the U.S. Secretary of War, and the President of the Confederate States of America.
Andrew Johnson of Tennessee was the only senator from the South that remained in his senatorial seat after the outbreak of the rebellion. He would become the 17th president of the US after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in April of 1865. He also would become the first president to be impeached.
He was a never a US senator. However, he was governor of New York and NY state senator before he was elected president.
community organizer, law professor, Illinois State Senator, US Senator from Illinois
Jefferson Davis of Mississippi -West Point graduate, US Secretary of War, and a US senator
I think Andrew Johnson probably held the most different positions. He was an alderman, a mayor, a state representative, a state senator, state governor, US Congressman, US Senator, military governor and Vice-president.
Johnson was a tailor before he entered politics. As a politician he was an alderman, a mayor, TN state representative, a TN state senator, governor of TN, a US Congressman, a US senator and vice-president before becoming president.
The current President Obama is from Illinois where he still has a house and which he represented as a US Senator. He was born in Hawaii.