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Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who committed treason by serving as the first and 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.
Sep 18, 2024 · Jefferson Davis (born June 3, 1808, Christian county, Kentucky, U.S.—died December 6, 1889, New Orleans, Louisiana) was the president of the Confederate States of America throughout its existence during the American Civil War (1861–65).
- Hudson Strode
Nov 9, 2009 · In December 1889, Davis died of acute bronchitis in New Orleans. Some 200,000 people lined that city’s streets for his funeral, held in Metairie Cemetery. In 1893, Davis’ body was relocated...
Apr 3, 2014 · Around 1 a.m. on December 6, 1889, Davis died of acute bronchitis in New Orleans, Louisiana. His body was temporarily interred at New Orleans’s Metairie Cemetery.
Jan 12, 2024 · In 1870, while traveling in New Orleans, Davis died on December 6, of unknown causes. After a grand funeral, Davis was buried at the Army of Northern Virginia tomb in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans on December 11.
- Harry Searles
Jefferson Finis Davis died in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 6, 1889. The year before his death the former President of the Confederate States of America beseeched the young men of Mississippi to “lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly ...
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Mar 17, 2024 · Jefferson Davis died in New Orleans on December 6, 1889 from unknown causes. Jefferson Davis was buried in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans on December 11, 1889. Jefferson Davis’s body was exhumed and reburied in Richmond’s Hollywood Cemetery between May 27 and May 31, 1893.
