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Hace 2 días · Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. Jefferson Davis was elected provisional president. His U.S. Senate resignation speech greatly impressed with its clear rationale for secession and his pleading for a peaceful departure from the Union to independence.
Hace 2 días · The fourth doctrine was advocated by Mississippi Senator (and soon to be Confederate President) Jefferson Davis. It was one of state sovereignty ("states' rights"), also known as the "Calhoun doctrine", named after the South Carolinian political theorist and statesman John C. Calhoun.
Hace 2 días · The Confederacy selected Jefferson Davis as its provisional president on February 9, 1861. Attempts at compromise followed but Lincoln and the Republicans rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise as contrary to the Party's platform of free-soil in the territories.
Hace 5 días · After various conferences they chose Jefferson Davis of Mississippi as president and Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia as vice president. Davis, who was not a member of the convention and who had no desire for the presidency, set out immediately from his Mississippi home.
Hace 5 días · Learn about the personal and political life of Jefferson Davis from his great-great-grandson Bertram Hayes-Davis. Overview of the life of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America (1861–65) during the American Civil War. (more) See all videos for this article.
Hace 3 días · For the rest of the war, Lee focused on his field army command, but he had learned a great deal from his prior service in South Carolina and his subsequent time as Davis’s chief military adviser. In early 1862 Lee saw first-hand the powerful advantages and flexibility Union forces derived from control of the sea.
Hace 4 días · With Jefferson Davis of Mississippi at its head, the Confederate States of America came into being, set up its own bureaus and offices, issued its own money, raised its own taxes, and flew its own flag.
