The “Congress of the Sovereign and Independent States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana” elects former Democratic (constitutionalist) Senator, Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, as provisional President; and former Democratic Representative Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, as provisional Vice President.
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Subsequent Events:
Authority:
unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 6
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 285.