Politician Jefferson Davis is born in Christian County, Kentucky. The future president of the Confederate States of America attended West Point, served in the U.S. Army, and represented Mississippi in both the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate before resigning from the Senate following Mississippi's secession from the Union.
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