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    Jefferson Davis

    President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865

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  2. 2 days ago · When Jefferson Davis, who was named for Thomas Jefferson, was age three, his family settled on a plantation called Rosemont in Woodville, Mississippi. At age seven he was sent for three years to a Dominican boys’ school in Kentucky, and at age 13 he entered Transylvania College, Lexington, Kentucky.

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  3. When Davis was around five, he received a rudimentary education at a small schoolhouse near Woodville. When he was about eight, his father sent him with Major Thomas Hinds and his relatives to attend Saint Thomas College , a Catholic preparatory school run by Dominicans near Springfield, Kentucky . [15]

  4. Nov 9, 2009 · Learn about the life and career of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate States of America. Find out how he served as a U.S. senator, secretary of war and military leader before and during the Civil War.

  5. Learn about the life and career of Jefferson Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of America. He was a planter, politician and soldier who attended West Point and served in the Mexican War.

  6. Apr 3, 2014 · Learn about the life and career of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. Find out about his education, military service, political achievements and controversies.

  7. About Jefferson Davis. It is unclear whether Davis was born in 1807 or 1808, and Davis himself was unsure. He wrote an acquaintance in 1858 that "there has been some controversy about the year of my birth among the older members of my family, and I am not a competent witness in the case, having once supposed the year to have been 1807, I was ...

  8. Learn about the life and career of Jefferson Davis, the first president of the Confederate States of America. He attended Transylvania College and West Point, fought in the Black Hawk War and the Mexican-American War, and served in the U.S. Senate and as secretary of war.

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