OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Jefferson Finis Davis

BORN:
June 3, 1808
Fairview, Kentucky

DIED:
December 6, 1889 (age 81)
New Orleans, Louisiana

EDUCATION:
U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1828)

POLTICAL PARTY:
Democrat

HIGHLIGHTS:
1832-1835:
Served in Military
1845-1846:
U.S. House of Representatives (D-Miss.)
1846:
Commanded First Regimen of Mississippi Rifleman during the war with Mexico 
1847-1851:
U.S. Senator from Mississippi 
1851:
Unsuccessful Candidate for Governor or Mississippi 
1853-1857:
U.S. Secretary of War
1857-1861:
U.S. Senator from Mississippi
1862-1865:
President of the Confederate States
May 10,1865:
Captured by Union Army in Irwinsville, Georgia
Imprisoned in Fortress Monroe
Indicted for Treason 
1867:
Paroled and Returned to Mississippi 

RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Congress
Encyclopedia of Virginia
Rice University
Wikipedia