Davis represented Mississippi and that was a Confederate state and the second state to secede from the Union.
Jefferson Davis represented Mississippi in the U.S. Congress before he was elected President of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy.
Davis was born in Kentucky, but lived most of life in Mississippi which is the state he represented in Congress.
Jefferson Davis was from the part of Christian County, Kentucky that now forms Todd County, Kentucky. When the State of Mississippi seceded from the Union in January 1861, Jefferson Davis was a U.S. Senator who represented that state.
Because Mississippi the State that he was the senator for seceded from the union along with 6 other states and they formed a confederacy which later Jefferson Davis was the President of.
The Confederate state of Mississippi offered Jefferson Davis the position of major general. This was just prior to the Confederate Congress naming Davis the provisional president of the Confederacy.
The Confederacy named moderate Jefferson Davis its president.
Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were born in the southern state of Kentucky. The Lincoln family would eventually move and settle in Illinois. The Davis family would eventually move and settle in Mississippi.
Jefferson Davis was a senator representing the state of Mississippi. He resigned from this position after Mississippi seceded in January of 1861 and accepted command of Mississippi State troops. Davis also served as the US Secretary of War. In February 1861 he was appointed provisional president of the Confederate States.
Jefferson Davis was a senator representing the state of Mississippi. He resigned from this position after Mississippi seceded in January of 1861 and accepted command of Mississippi State troops. Davis also served as the US Secretary of War. In February 1861 he was appointed provisional president of the Confederate States.
Kentucky was always a Union state in the sense that it remained in the Union throughout the Civil War. As a border state it had numbers of people who preferred the Confederacy and numbers of people who preferred the Union.
Jefferson was born on the state of Kentucky