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Submitted: 9/16/20 • Approved: 9/23/20 • Last Updated: 9/26/20 • R34403-G0-S3
June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889
President of the Confederate States
An American Soldier
and defender of the Constitution
Born in Christian County Kentucky June 3, 1809
Died at New Orleans, Louisiana December , 1899
West Point Class of 1828
Member of House of Representatives
from Mississippi 1845 -1846
Colonel 1st Mississippi Rifles Mexican War 1846-1847
Brigadier General US Army May 17, 1847
U. S. Senate 1847 - 1851
Secretary of War 1853-1857
U. S. Senate 1857-1861
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