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Jefferson Davis was appointed by the Confederate Congress to be the president of the Confederate States of America in 1861. At first he was the provisional president. Soon after, the Confederate Congress elected Davis to a six year term that could not be renewed. The Confederate Constitution called for a one term of six years for any Confederate president.
Vice President of the Confederate States of America, Governor of Georgia, and a Congressman.
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America.
President Andrew Johnson firmly opposed to the Fourteenth Amendment and recommended the former Confederate States not to ratify the same if it were to become a law. This opposition outraged the Congress, which in March 1867 passed the Reconstruction Act that imposed its will on the South by diktat.
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America, a short-lived nation formed of secessionist states during the American Civil War.