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Honorable Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 - December 6, 1889) Scottish-Irish, Veteran, Politician, U.S. Congress, Mexican War, U.S. Secretary of War, President of the Confederate States of America. Jefferson Davis’ life includes being a West Point graduate, a U.S. Representative and Senator, a Mexican War hero and a U.S. Secretary of War.
18 de nov. de 2016 · Durante la presidencia de Franklin Pierce (1853-1857), Jefferson Davis ejerció como secretario de Guerra y en los siguientes años radicalizó su discurso, siendo designado en el Senado portavoz ...
Davis was the tenth and last child of Revolutionary War veteran Samuel Emory Davis and Jane Cook. In 1811, Davis's family relocated to St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, and the next year, the family moved to a small plantation named Rosemont in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. During his youth, Davis attended private schools in Mississippi and, Kentucky.
Jefferson Davis (1853–1857) Jefferson Fine Davis was born in 1808 in Fairview, Kentucky. He attended Transylvania College in 1821 but ultimately graduated from West Point in 1828 as a second lieutenant. After leaving the academy, Davis was assigned to the northwestern frontier and fought in the Black Hawk War from 1831 to 1832.
About Jefferson Davis. It is unclear whether Davis was born in 1807 or 1808, and Davis himself was unsure. He wrote an acquaintance in 1858 that "there has been some controversy about the year of my birth among the older members of my family, and I am not a competent witness in the case, having once supposed the year to have been 1807, I was ...
9 de dic. de 2023 · Jefferson Finis Davis is born in Kentucky. 1824: Enters the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. 1828: Graduates from West Point, commissioned as 2nd lieutenant. 1835: Marries Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor. 1845: Elected to U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi. 1846-1847: Serves in the Mexican-American War, becomes ...
Davis, Jefferson Finis. Born in Kentucky, Jefferson Davis settled in Mississippi , and became a national political figure during the 1850s. He was a senator and secretary of war who was selected as president of the Confederacy. Richmond diarist (and Dickinson College attendee) Littleton Washington observed Davis closely during the war.
