Lincoln I believe...
Lincoln I believe...
Lincoln had spoken against the Mexican-American War.
President James Knox Polk.
Abraham Lincoln spoke out against it when he was a Whig Congressman.
At the start, no one. When the US finally ended its Civil War, president Lincoln offered arms and financial support to the Mexican president Benito Juarez.
No he was an expansionist who favored the war.
Yes. A Mexican can be the president of Mexico. The president of Mexico is constitutionally required to be born in Mexico. Also, a person of Mexican descent could the president of other countries as long as they met the criteria for being president in that particular country.
The Mexican president
The position of president of Mexico was not established then.
President Polk.
Jefferson Davis was qualified to be the president of the Confederacy. He was educated at two well known academies and graduated from West Point. He also served in the Mexican War. Later in his career in was a member of the House of Representatives and a senator. He also served as the US Secretary of War.Certainly this experience served him well as the risk of open warfare was a reality for the Confederacy.