| Summary: | President of the Confederate States of America. Graduated from West Point, 1828. Although Davis resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1835 to become a Mississippi planter, he served in the Mexican War. Served as both a U.S. representative and U.S. senator from Mississippi, and Secretary of War in the Pierce administration. In January 1861, Davis was appointed a major general in the Mississippi militia. In February 1861, Davis became president of the Confederate States of America and served in that capacity until captured in May 1865. Source: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.
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