FTP, identify this Southern politician, who became provisional president of the Confederate government in 1861 and was elected to a six-year term as President the following year.
He resigned from the Senate in 1851 to run for governor, but was defeated by Henry Foote.  Five years earlier, he had resigned from the House to command the Mississippi Rifles in the Mexican-American War.  After serving as Pierce's Secretary of War, he returned to the Senate in 1857, only to resign again four years later, when Mississippi seceded.  FTP, identify this Southern politician, who became provisional president of the Confederate government in 1861 and was elected to a six-year term as President the following year.
He resigned from the Senate in 1851 to run for governor, but was defeated by Henry Foote.  
Jefferson Davis