• Was born on June 3, 1808 in what is now Todd County, Kentucky
• Graduated from Transylvania University
• Graduated from West Point in 1828
• Served in the U.S. Army until he resigned in 1835, due to ill health
• Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1845
• Left Congress in 1846 to fight in the Mexican War
• Was Elected to the U.S. Senate from the state of Mississippi, in 1847, and served 4 years
• Served at President Pierce's Secretary of War from 1853 until 1857
• Re-elected to the U.S. Senate in 1857, for four more years
• He fought to preserve slavery, while also trying to keep the South in the Union during his last 4 years in the Senate
• Left the Senate when Mississippi seceded from the Union
• Made provisional President of the Confederacy on February 18, 1861
• Spent his time as President of the Confederacy trying to raise money, and troops for the Army, support from the state Governors, and trying to get Europe to recognize the Confederacy as it's own Country
• Fled Richmond with his cabinet just before it fell to Gen Grant
• Was captured by Federal troops on May 10th, 1865, in Irwinville Georgia
• Imprisoned at Fortress Monroe from 1865 until 1867, on charges of Treason
• Horace Greeley and other powerful northerners signed his $100,000 bond, so he could be released
• The U.S. Government dropped the charges against him in 1868
• Lived near Biloxi, Mississippi from 1878 until his death
• Wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government while in Biloxi
• Died on December 6, 1889, in New Orleans
• Burried in Richmond, Virginia

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