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Jefferson Davis Jefferson Davis led a very eventful life. He was born June 3rd, 1808; he was born in United States in Kentucky. He lived with his very big family of 12. He had seven sisters and three brothers. When he was little he was sent to boarding school in Transylvania. After school he went to the military. After military he went to Kentucky University. When he graduated in 1824 he went to the army and became a lieutenant. He was a very well known southern figure. He was also a good Congressman. He also fought with the War Hawks before he resigned. After a couple of years Jefferson decided to resign and became a planter. When he was a planter he was not really a planter. He was a slave owner for ten years when he managed his plantation. Jefferson Davis said slavery was a necessary thing to improve the lot of African Americans brought over to the Americas as slaves. He was married to daughter of Colonel Zachory, his wife died three months after they got married. He was the president of confederate States of America during Civil War. He went to the army to serve for the Black Hawks, after he resigned from the army he became a planter in Mississippi. In 1845 secretary of war in the cabinet of President Franklin. He always said a famous quote “I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not.” The north was mad and blind would not let us govern us, and so the war came. He died in dec, 5 1889 in New Orleans.

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