Jefferson Davis Elected Confederate President: The South Has Its Leader
Jefferson Davis didn't want the job. He'd been a U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, a decorated Mexican-American War veteran. When Mississippi seceded, he hoped for a military command. Instead, the Confederate convention in Montgomery chose him as provisional president — unanimously, while he was still traveling. His wife later wrote that he looked like a man receiving a sentence, not an honor. He took office February 18, 1861. The Confederacy would last exactly four years and two months.
February 9, 1861
165 years ago
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Montgomery, Alabama
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Robert E. Lee
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