Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson Davis (3 June 1808 – 6 December 1889) was born in Christian County, Kentucky, near the border with Todd County. His birthplace is now the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site.
Before the War Between the States, Davis served in the Mississippi Legislature, the U.S. House and U.S. Senate. He fought in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment. Later he became Secretary of War in the cabinet of U.S. President Franklin Pierce.
From 1861 to 1865, he served as the President of the Confederate States of America.
Following the War Between the States, he retired to Beauvoir in Biloxi, Mississippi where he wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. He died in New Orleans, Louisiana on 5 December 1889 and his body was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
