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• Known For: Davis was thepresident of the Confederate States of America.
• Also Known As: Jefferson Finis Davis
• Born: June 3, 1808 in Todd County, Kentucky
• Parents: Samuel Emory Davis and Jane Davis
• Died: December 6, 1889 in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Education: Transylvania University, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
• Published Works: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
• Spouses: Sarah Knox Taylor, Varina Howell
• Children: 6
• Notable Quote: "Are we, in this age of civilization and political progress…to roll back the whole current of human thought, and again return to the mere brute force which prevails between beasts of prey, as the only method of settling questions between men?"

This story is part of The Confederate Reckoning, a collaborative project of USA TODAY Network newsrooms across the South to critically examine the legacy of the Confederacy and its influence on systemic racism today.

Jefferson Davis was a man of many words. He literally wrote volumes during his lifetime, and spent the last decade of his life writing about the history of the Confederacy and an in-depth analysis of the Civil War.

But Davis (1808-1889) most notably is known for his role with the Confederate States of America, of which he was named its first — and only — president.

Davis, born in Kentucky, lived much of his life in Mississippi. He served in the U.S. House and later the Senate before leaving the United States to take the helm of the.Confederate States of America.

"He was pretty much selected president … they wanted him to be president because he had the most friends in the North," said Jay Peterson. curator at Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library.

Before leaving the U.S. Senate, Davis made an impassioned farewell speech as he talked about Mississippi and other southern states leaving the Union, that left his fellow senators in tears.

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