Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, was elected Vice President of The Confederacy when Jefferson Davis was elected President in 1861 and served until the end of the war in 1865. Prior to this service, Stephens had been admitted to the Bar in 1834; he was elected to the US Congress in 1843 as a member of the Whig Party and served in that position until the election of 1858.
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Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce
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.
Atlanta was an important city for the Confederacy to hold, and armies under the command of Union General William T. Sherman were pressing on towards that city. Jefferson Davis believed that General John B. Hood could do a more effective job then Johnston. Davis replaced Johnston on July 17, 1864.
Opponent #1: United States of America, consisting of the Northern States and California, under President Abraham Lincoln. Opponent #2: Confederate States of America, consisting of the Southern States and Texas, under President Jefferson Davis.
Jefferson Davis was the secretary of defence for the United States under President Pierce. The office was then called the secretary of war. He was also a senator from Mississippi.
Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce
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.
Prior to the Civil War, Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War under President John Tyler.
Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy, had a lot of soldiers in his armies, especially those soldiers serving under General Robert E. Lee. Once Gen. Grant defeated Gen. Lee, the Civil War was all but over.
Sara Knox Taylor married the young Mississippian who would become the president of the Confederacy and who served under Taylor in Mexico -- Jefferson Davis. Source: http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/taylor/essays/biography/7
Atlanta was an important city for the Confederacy to hold, and armies under the command of Union General William T. Sherman were pressing on towards that city. Jefferson Davis believed that General John B. Hood could do a more effective job then Johnston. Davis replaced Johnston on July 17, 1864.
Confederate artilery under General P.G.T. Beauregard, on the direct orders of President Jefferson Davis.
Opponent #1: United States of America, consisting of the Northern States and California, under President Abraham Lincoln. Opponent #2: Confederate States of America, consisting of the Southern States and Texas, under President Jefferson Davis.
Confederate artillery, under their local commander P.G.T. Beauregard, acting under orders from the Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
Jefferson Davis was a former Secretary of War under United States President Franklin Pierce, and he was also a United States Senator from Mississippi. During the War Between the States he was President of a Nation called the Confederate States of America.
The Provisional Confederate Congress had unanimously elected Jefferson Davis to be the provisional president of the South. This was on February 11, 1861. Later, after the US Civil War was underway, Davis was confirmed as the official Confederate president and elected to a six year term. Under the Confederate Constitution, presidents could serve only one term. There was no reelection process.
Jefferson Davis was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. When he became the official president, under the Confederate constitution, a president was allowed only one six year term.