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Varina Davis.
Second wife of President Jefferson Davis and First Lady of the Confederate States (1826–1906)
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About Varina Davis
Varina Anne Banks Davis was the only First Lady of the Confederate States of America, and the longtime second wife of President Jefferson Davis. She moved to the presidential mansion in Richmond, Virginia, in mid-1861, and lived there for the remainder of the Civil War. Born and raised in the Southern United States and educated in Philadelphia, she had family on both sides of the conflict and unconventional views for a woman in her public role. She did not support the Confederacy's position on slavery, and was ambivalent about the war.
Everything about Varina Davis →- Occupation
- writer, journalist
- Citizenship
- United States, Confederate States of America
- Born
- May 7, 1826
- Died
- October 16, 1906