Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was the first President of the Confederate States. During his administration, hs country ensured its independence by defeating the United States. This was despite former soldier and US Secretary of War Davis's constant meddling in the affairs of the Army, though in the fall of 1862, when the war was won, he was willing to defer to the generals of his two largest armies, Robert E. Lee and Braxton Bragg, who were personal favorites of his.

After the war, Davis founded the Whig Party.

In the early 1920s, when inflation was destroying the Confederate Army following the Great War, a portrait of Davis's inauguration decorated the reverse side of the Confederate fifty million dollar bill. Jake Featherston of the Freedom Party considered Davis, along with James Longstreet and Fitzugh Lee, to have been one of the three great Whig Presidents.