What are the names of the presidents of the confederate states of America?

Answer 1

There was only one, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi. He was selected as "provisional president" by the convention of the seven southern states who had already seceded in February, 1861, after they had drafted the Confederate constitution. He served as "provisional president" until he was regularly elected in the Confederate presidential election in February 1862. No one ran against him. The Confederate Constitution allowed a president to serve a single term of six years, so there was never another election in the Confederacy. Alexander Stephens of Georgia was Vice President.

Davis appeared much better qualified than Lincoln at the beginning of the war. He had been a US Senator and Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee of the US Senate. He had been Secretary of War for four years during the Buchanan Administration. He was an authentic hero of the Mexican War, where he commanded a regiment in Mexico and was wounded. He was a graduate of West Point. Lincoln had not been to college, his military experience amounted to about six weeks in the militia during the Black Hawk War in 1832, without seeing any action, and he had served a single two year term as a US Congressman from Illinois. Lincoln was a quick learner though.