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JEFFERSON DAVIS, an officer, states man and legislator of prominence in America, gained the greater part of his fame from the fact that he was president of the southern confederacy. Mr. Davis was born in Christian county. Kentucky, June 3, 1808, and his early education and surroundings were such that his sympathies and inclinations were wholly with the southern people. He received a thorough education, graduated at West Point in 1828, and for a number of years served in the army at western posts and in frontier service, first as lieutenant and later as adjutant. In 1835 he resigned and became a cotton planter in Warren county, Mississippi, where he took an active interest in public affairs and became a conspicuous figure in politics. In 1844 he was a presidential elector from Mississippi and during the two following years served as congressman from his district. He then became colonel of a Mississippi regiment in the war with Mexico and participated in some of the most severe battles,
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A Biographical Record Of Schuyler County, New York, S. J. Clarke, 1903
The War of 1812 was a conflict between the United States and Great Britain, lasting from 1812 to 1815. It was primarily fueled by issues such as trade restrictions due to Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American sailors into the British Navy, and British support of Native American tribes against American expansion. The war ended with the Treaty of Ghent, restoring pre-war boundaries but resolving few of the initial disputes.
From the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.
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On November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America. He ran unopposed and was elected to serve for a six-year term. Davis had already been serving as the temporary president for almost a year.
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November 6, 1861
1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.
1889 - THE LOST CAUSE. Death Finally Claims Jefferson Davis, Its Leader. - He Dies at the House of a Friend in New Orleans - The Remains Viewed by Thousands - The News at the War Department.
Jefferson Davis Dead.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 6. - Jefferson Davis died at 12:45 o'clock this morning at the residence of his friend, J. U. Payne. From the beginning of his fatal illness Mr. Davis had insisted that his case was nearly or quite hopeless, though the dread of pain or death never appeared to take the slightest hold upon his spirits, which were brave and even buoyant from the beginning of his attack. In vain did the doctors strive to impress upon him that his health was improving. He steadily insisted that there was no improvement, but with Christian resignation he was content to accept whatever Providence had in store for him.
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Jefferson Davis was born June 3, 1808, in that part of Christian County, Ky, which now forms Todd County, and soon after his birth his father removed to Mississippi and settled near Woodville, Wilkinson County. Jefferson Davis received an academical education, and was sent to Transylvania College, Kentucky, which he left in 1824, having
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The Council Grove Republican
Council Grove, Kansas
December 13, 1889
Birth — 1808
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