Jefferson Davis
1808 – 1889
American

President of the Confederacy. He led the "Lost Cause."

Contemporaries
1817–1862Henry David Thoreau
1809–1865Abraham Lincoln
1743–1826Thomas Jefferson
1842–1910William James
1859–1952John Dewey
1857–1938Clarence Darrow
1835–1919Andrew Carnegie
1837–1921John Burroughs
1821–1912Clara Barton
1820–1906Susan B. Anthony
1860–1935Jane Addams