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It hasn’t been easy getting people excited about celebrating the 200th birthday of that tall, gaunt, bearded, Kentucky-bred president who was born in a log cabin and went on to lead his people ...

Jefferson Davis was raised on a plantation and educated at Transylvania University and West Point. He served as a congressman, a senator and as secretary of war, and distinguished himself in ...

HICKS: Oh, by the way, Kentucky was never even officially a Confederate state, but it is where Jefferson Davis was born. Karen Cox teaches history at the University of North Carolina.

Gen Jefferson Davis at West Point. Share full article. Sept. 26, 1855. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from September 26, 1855, Page 2 Buy Reprints.