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Events on Friday 6 December 1889 1
1808 – 1889Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)Died 6 December 1889, aged 81Davis served as the only president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. After the war he was imprisoned for two years before being released without trial, and he spent his final decades writing and speaking in defense of the Confederate cause.