Presidents+Lincoln+and+Davis

__ Presidents Lincoln and Davis __

       I got most of my information for Lincoln from this site:
 * __Abraham Lincoln: __**
 * Lincoln was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky.
 * He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity.
 * On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the chance of peace with fairness died.
 * In 1858, Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860.
 * As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause.
 * On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.
 * On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth somehow thought he was helping the South. However, with Lincoln's death, the chance of peace with fairness died.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html

<-- Abraham Lincoln (I got the picture from: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/jb/civil/jb_civil_lincoln2_1_e.jpg )

<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Jefferson Davis was born on June 3, 1808, in Christian (now Todd) County, Kentucky, and he sadly died in New Orleans, on December 6, 1889. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * __<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Jefferson Davis: __**

Here is Jefferson Davis's Military History and his Political History (It highlights and outlines some of the important parts of his life): <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

**<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Military History **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">He was in the U.S. Military Academy Graduated 1828, and after that, he was in the frontier service. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Health forced him to resign from the army in 1835. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">He fought in the Mexican War at Monterrey and Buena Vista, and he was wounded at Buena Vista. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Political History **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">He was the U.S. senator from Mississippi from 1835 to 1845. He was US Congressman from 1845 to 1846, and then again from 1857 to 1861. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">He withdrew from the Senate in 1861 when Mississippi seceded. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> ·  <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">On February 18, 1861, the temporary Congress of the Confederate States made him provisional president. He was elected to the office by popular vote that very year for a 6-year term and was sworn in in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, on February 22, 1862. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">