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15 de feb. de 2009 · When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily: she spent long years struggling to reconcile her societal duties to her personal beliefs. Raised in Mississippi but educated in Philadelphia, and a long-time resident of Washington, D.C ...
5 de abr. de 2018 · Davis believed that the U.S. Constitution gave him an absolute right to own other people, and he led the South’s secession from the United States and into a terrible civil war. Varina Davis ...
Varina Howell Davis (1826-1906) was the wife of Jefferson Davis. She had a long, turbulent life in the public eye, and she grappled all of her life with the dilemma of being married to a powerful figure whose views she did not share.
Brief Life History of Jefferson Finis. When President Jefferson Finis Davis Sr was born on 3 June 1808, in Fairview, Christian, Kentucky, United States, his father, Major Samuel Emory Davis, was 52 and his mother, Martha Jane Simpson Cook, was 48. He married Sara Knox Taylor on 17 June 1835, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States.
22 de feb. de 2016 · But the similarities between Julia Grant and Varina Davis didn’t end there. The two elderly widows were both born in 1826 to slave-owning Southern families. Both had keen intellects and literary ...
With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. He instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history - culpable regardless of ...
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Statesman. Birth Date. 1826. Death Date. 1906. First Lady of the Confederate States of America Varina Howell Davis was born at her family plantation, the Briers, near Natchez, Mississippi in 1826. As a plantation owner's daughter, Davis received her education from a private tutor and later attended finishing school. She was seventeen when she ...
