• Daguerrotype wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell (1845). Davis became publicly involved in politics in 1840 when he attended a...
  • ^ Strawbridge, Wilm K. (11 Aralık 2007). "A Monument Better Than Marble: Jefferson Davis and the New South". Journal of Mississippi History.
  • Jefferson Davis’s Plot to Trigger a War between the Union and the British Empire. Jefferson Davis’s British delusion lasted until the end of the Civil War.
  • Supports slavery as a youth. Jefferson Davis was born on June 3, 1808, in southwestern Kentucky. He was the youngest child in a large family.
  • Jefferson Davis , the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, circa 1865. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
  • Jefferson Davis’s Tweets. Pinned Tweet. ... 81. 251. Jefferson Davis Retweeted.
  • In June 1846, Jefferson Davis resigned from his position in Congress to lead the First Regiment of the Mississippi Riflemen in the Mexican-American War.
  • But his detractors note the obvious: Davis strongly believed in the perpetuation of slavery. The veneration of Jefferson Davis remains a controversial subject.
  • Jefferson Davis was the tenth and last child of Samuel Emory Davis and Jane Cook. Jefferson Davis’s father was a Revolutionary War veteran.
  • Jefferson Davis marries Sarah Knox Taylor, the daughter of his commanding officer, Virginia native and future U.S. president Zachary Taylor.