Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889)
Davis's inauguration - February 1861
November 6th 1861: Davis elected Confederate President
On this day in 1861 at the start of the American Civil War, Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America unopposed, having been sworn in as provisional president that February. Davis served as President until the demise of the Confederacy as the seceded states rejoined the Union after the North’s victory in the Civil War. Despite his success at keeping the Confederate war effort going for longer than was initially expected, he is generally considered not as effective as the Union President Abraham Lincoln. Davis failed to secure any international support for the Confederacy and caused inflation when his administration printed money to cover the war costs. Davis was imprisoned after the war but was never tried and was released after two years. He died in 1889 aged 81, after having popularised the ‘Lost Cause’ interpretation of the war which praised prewar Southern society and condemned the following period of Reconstruction.
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