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.

He's generally not considered a hero. To Unionists, he was a traitor, end of story. To Confederates, he wasn't a particularly good leader, and his weak government contributed to the ultimate loss in the war.

Jefferdon Davis was President of the Confederate States of America

Davis was best known for being the president of the Confederate States.

Jefferson Davis did support slavery but also thought it should end eventually and the slaves should be freed. He did feel that they should be educated and then freed.

Jefferson Davis served as the Senator for the state of Mississippi before he became the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. He served as a senator from 1847-1851.

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.

Jefferson Davis had trouble keeping the Confederacy unified because the states did not want to be told what to do. The South was loosely allied with each other for common defense. Jefferson was nervous in leadership and refused to delegate authority.

Ja! Jeff Davis ruled as a Dictator, there weren't any "free elections" during the failed rebellion called, loosely, the Confederated States of America, claiming eleven (11), but only having and credit for seven (7) territories at all. And then, and then, the Union divided into thirds! Sad! The rebellion was a disaster from the first cannon shot to the last shell fired in Texas at "friendly forces!" A oligarchical dictatorship of rich slave owners, calling themselves 'so-called christians,' and not! Jeff Davis fled one capitol after another in disgrace, and where General Lee regained his Citizenship with honor. Jeff Davis sulked away till his death in treasonous defeat and disgrace, keeping slaves to the end of his days! To this day, no one claims any lineage to the traitor! no 'teabuggers' allowed to disgrace Answer.com!

When he was about to be captured by Union troops, he tried to escape dressed as a woman. This was not a very Confederate way of handling arrest.

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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.

Pretty slender.

His appointment of Robert E. Lee to command the Army of Northern Virginia was one of his few successful appointments.

Generally, he was out of his depth, feuding with his Generals, unable to control his cabinet, and refusing to make public speeches. He just kept issuing appeals for loyalty. In the end, this was not sufficient, and he fled from his responsibilities at the moment of surrender.

Joseph Johnston, Robert E. Lee, P. G. T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, John Hood.

He was its only president, and acted as general in chief until January 1865 when he gave Robert E. Lee that position. His political and military background made him a perfect match for the leadership of the South.

He strongly believed in slavery. He believed that African-Americans were better off into slavery. He thought that they weren't being treated as badly as they were, though. He simply pushed that factor out of his mind; he had better things to worry about. Jefferson also had a temper, and believed that if pushed the right way, war was necessary. He defended himself, and if he got a dirty look, he feel compelled to act and attack them back.

Davis was a strong advocate of the secession and although he was once a loyal US soldier, a graduate of West Point and the US Secretary of War in the 1850's, he was bent on the Southern rebellion.

After seceding, he would have been quite happy without a war, if Lincoln had granted official recognition to the Confederacy.

But when Lincoln declared that he would defend Fort Sumter (which the Confederacy considered its own), and then called for new volunteer troops, Davis felt he had to mobilise.

To be theoretically correct there were 187 slaves owned by Thomas Jefferson. One of these lady slaves, Sally Hemmings, had a total of 7 kids, only 4 surviving for any significant period of time. Sally's "relationship" with Jefferson cannot be thought of as consensual and reciprocal as she was, in fact, Jefferson's property and any refusal of his advances could have been punished with death.

Thomas Jefferson worried about the Missouri Compromise in 1820 because it seemed to split the nation along "slave" and "free" lines. He called it something like "an alarm bell in the night." (Google the exactly quotation if you wish.) Prior to this time politicians did not think in terms of the nation being divided into two different regions, but Jefferson saw that this would lead to conflict. In addition, Jefferson and most other people of his generation had thought of slavery as something that would just go away soon.

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.

he thought it was only okay if your mom did it .

On paper, Jefferson Davis had all the credentials to be the political leader of the Confederacy. He was intelligent, and before graduating from West Point, he had attended Transylvania University, ( the school exists today )

Davis had a protracted tenure in public service in both the legislative and executive branches of the US government. He was perfectly at home in Washington DC and later in Richmond. He had been elected to the House of Representatives and later to the US Senate. He had also served for a term as the US Secretary of War. He also had earned a reputation of being a man of courage.

His weakness was to be slow in delegating power and his interference in military matters that would have best been handled by a top general.