Kentucky's Other President: Jefferson Davis | President's Day | Kentucky Life | KET
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- Kentucky's Other President: Jefferson Davis
Both Civil War presidents were born in Kentucky. Jefferson Davis, a soldier and statesman who went on to become the president of the Confederate States of America, was born just eight months earlier than Lincoln, on June 3, 1808, and only 100 miles away, in Fairview, here in Christian County. Historians James Klotter and James Ramage offer their views on the similarities and differences between Lincoln and Davis.
Like Lincoln's family, Davis's family left Kentucky during his youth. Davis's family moved first to Louisiana and then to Mississippi. Davis had years of formal schooling Lincoln never had. He returned to Kentucky for portions of his schooling. He was educated at a Catholic school in Springfield-where he was the only Protestant student-and at Transylvania University in Lexington, a training ground for many prominent politicians of the day.
Lincoln married a Kentucky native, Mary Todd of Lexington. Davis's first wife, Sarah, had Kentucky ties: She was Zachary Taylor's daughter. It was an ill-fated union. Taylor opposed the marriage; and Sarah died three months after the wedding of malaria, in 1835. It would be a decade before Davis married again.
In Illinois, Lincoln was defeated by Stephen Douglas in his run for the U.S. Senate. In Mississippi, Davis was twice elected U.S. senator: He was appointed to a vacant seat in 1847, then won election and held the seat until 1851. He returned to the Senate a second time, in 1857, resigning in 1861 when Mississippi seceded from the Union.
Later in his life, Davis always identified himself as a Kentuckian. He is remembered here with a 351-foot-tall concrete obelisk located at the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site in Fairview. Dedicated in 1924, it's the fifth tallest monument in America.
Wow! At the time I was touring his home in Biloxi, Mississippi as a young teenager, I didn’t realize!
An interesting history. Thank you for sharing.
Both are historical figures.Leave the statues alone.
Yes leave the statues alone, I am all for saving History, the good bad and ugly.
Can’t agree. How could A. Lincoln be a tyrant when 1. He was duly elected and 2. SC fired the first shots and enticed the rest to break the bond. J. Davis was never elected he was appointed.
@@jameslawracy2666 The old South was controlled by Democrats, and just like today a place that is controlled by democrats goes into the toilet.
Benedict Arnold is also a historic figure but we don’t have statues honoring that traitor.
@@jameslawracy2666 We should, Arnold was a War Hero, he fought for our Country and lost an arm in battle, he only went to the other side after he was (back stabbed) by our own people. You need to learn the real history,(:
Happy Birthday President Jefferson F. Davis!!!
He was the epitome of the Southern gentleman!
slave owner, planter and champion of the rich. Pretty Southern gentlemen.
Thank you sir for your service
you mean treason?
@@incubus_the_man in his fight against tyranny
My Grand Father's name was JD Lewis, guess what the JD stood for ?.
Ironically during his second term as a senator of Mississippi, Davis made a lot speeches against secession and did not believe states had the right to secede.
He was elected by the people for the people.he done many things for this country.
Awesome ❤DIXIE❤
He might have been more loved, if he had of not made some of his decisions based on who is friends were. Best example is he stuck up for Bragg, when he was the problem. He also gave Hood a command when he should have been anywhere but in command of an army.
Absolute chad
I have to do my stupid home work :(
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THE GREATEST AMERICAN EVER PERIOD
Wow JD was kinda a tragic figure. I feel like he and Lincoln were different sides of the same coin seeing as they both wanted to preserve the union
Right, but one wanted to ultimately preserve slavery and the other to ultimately end it. History has clearly sided with the rightful victor in this case.
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Jefferson Davis was a Great Man a Godly Man and a Great Leader . Much more honest than Abe Lincoln.
He was a traitor. He Stephens, Lee and many others had taken and sworn an oath to the US Constitution and then waged war against it. That’s the definition of a traitor. Don’t forget about the south firing the first shot in defense of owning slaves. Read SC articles of secession. It wasn’t about “state’s rights”. That was a mouth made up a decade or two after the war as a justification after having lost. Read your southern history books and the original documents.
@@jameslawracy2666 You need to get the disrespect beaten out of ya?
@@thrawn_wave4927 your a worthless primitive
Jefferson Davis what is a coward in a chicken and would not fight, but had other men fight for him to oppress a whole people in the Bible says every man is created equal you can’t be confederate and be a Christian
@@thrawn_wave4927 Davis looked at people of color as inferior and as property. Just shut up.
He was a criminal maniac thinking that it's okay to "own" human beings like objects
You believe everything anyone tells you.
He was a president of a group of rebels. Never the president of a country. The continued idolatry of a traitor is mind boggling.
Jefferson Davis was a Great Leader . We fought to stop the aggression of the North in the tyranny of Abraham Lincoln.
@@lawrencecates8402 what tyranny? Remember who it was that broke the oath of allegiance to the USA. Senators congressmen and other traitors who had pledged their allegiance to the US as Secretary’s of various US departments. Oh yea, and who fired the first shots, the traitors in SC for no reason than their guy didn’t get elected President. Try learning your history before opening up your mouth and showing your lack of knowledge.
@@lawrencecates8402 tyranny? What about the tyranny of Southern Aristocrats and Plantation owners had over their slaves?
That war needed to be fought to undo an abhorrent injustice that was going against the very principals that this Country was founded on. It is hypocrisy to fight for freedom while enslaving others at the same time. For that, the Civil War was necessary.
Jefferson Davis should’ve stayed where he was and not messed up the south the cross dresser/special Ed Jefferson Davis should’ve stayed up where he was
Complete nemeses. Kentucky s noted for whiskey more, even before the Civil War, Georgetown was founded in 1789. There were much better places than Kentucky for education. There was slavery there in DC and it was definitely in the South. This Kentucky announcer must be hitting the sauce early.
Who cares?
Many care!
You do !
I do
I do too.
I care a lot about Jeff Davis.