• ^ Strawbridge, Wilm K. (11 Aralık 2007). "A Monument Better Than Marble: Jefferson Davis and the New South". Journal of Mississippi History.
  • Daguerrotype wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell (1845). Davis became publicly involved in politics in 1840 when he attended a...
  • Thus, Davis did America a great service. Jefferson Davis did more to destroy American slavery; an institution he loved, than any abolitionist.
  • 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.
  • Davis was an attractive choice for president of the Confederate States once the dissolution of the Union became a reality.
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  • Davis went on to Jefferson College at Washington, Mississippi, in 1818, and to Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1821.
  • Biography of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America throughout its existence during the American Civil War (1861–65).
  • 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.
  • Jefferson Davis was the tenth and last child of Samuel Emory Davis and Jane Cook. Jefferson Davis’s father was a Revolutionary War veteran.