Jefferson Davis

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Jefferson Davis (1808-89) was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, the nation formed in 1861 by the secession from the Union of 11 southern states. He was born in Mississippi and became a slaveholding landowner on a plantation given to him by a wealthy older brother.

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