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Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
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Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
Jefferson F. Davis was an American politician who served as the only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
President of the Confederate States of America
Head of state and of government of the Confederate States
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