After the first seven southern states seceded from the U.S.,the new Confederate States of America elected this man president of the new southern slave republic:

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Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America in February 1861, following the secession of seven southern states from the United States. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, P.G.T. Beauregard, and John C. Calhoun, Jr. were all prominent figures in the Confederacy, but none of them served as president.

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