Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America, a short-lived nation formed of secessionist states during the American Civil War.
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Jefferson Davis was the only president that the Confederate States of America ever had. He was in office in 1861.
1860, December of 1860
When Lincoln was elected president in 1860, his views on slavery were already known and included:
Stephen A. Douglas, US senator from Illinois was their candidate in 1860.
Stephen A. Douglas, US senator from Illinois was their candidate in 1860.
Because the Democratic Party had split into two factions (North and South) and the Republicans were bound to win the 1860 election, with their first President, Abraham Lincoln, who would not allow the creation of any more slave-states.