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Varina Banks Howell Davis (geboren am 7. Mai 1826 in Natchez, Mississippi; gestorben am 16. Oktober 1906 in Manhattan, New York) war die zweite Ehefrau von Jefferson Davis, dem Präsidenten der Konföderierten Staaten von Amerika von 1861 bis 1865. Sie erarbeitete sich nach dem Tod ihres Mannes einen Ruf als Journalistin und ...
Varina Anne Banks Davis ( née Howell; May 7, 1826 – October 16, 1906) 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.
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The First Lady of the Confederate States of America, Varina Howell Davis (1826–1906) was born in Louisiana, across the Mississippi River from Natchez, Mississippi, to William and Margaret Howell.
22. Dez. 2021 · Varina Howell Davis was the second wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and the First Lady of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. She was a native of the urban South, a former schoolteacher, and a moderate woman who preferred Washington to the country. She had a long and difficult marriage with a politician who loved his first wife more than her, and she faced many challenges as a First Lady.
Varina Davis. The children of Jefferson and Varina Davis. In 1845 Davis, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and married Varina Howell, a Natchez, Mississippi, aristocrat who was 18 years his junior and the granddaughter of a former governor of New Jersey.
See a watercolor painting of Varina Howell Davis, the wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, by John Wood Dodge in 1849. Learn about her life, roles, and jewelry during the Civil War.
Varina Howell Davis (1826-1906) was the wife of Jefferson Davis. She had a long, turbulent life in the public eye, and she grappled all of her life with the dilemma of being married to a powerful figure whose views she did not share. Today few readers know that the Confederate First Lady was not a Confederate: she opposed secession in 1860 and ...
