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{{Short description|none}}{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}File:Flickr - USCapitol - Jefferson Davis Statue.jpg|upright=0.65|thumb|Jefferson Davis in National Statuary HallNational Statuary HallThe following is a list of the memorials to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America.

Sculpture

(File:Jefferson Davis Monument, Memphis.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Statue formerly at Memphis Park. Removed in 2017.)File:Jefferson_Davis_statue,_Richmond_VA,_USA.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Statue formerly at Monument AvenueMonument AvenueFile:19-23-001-davis.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Bust of Davis at Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic SiteJefferson Davis Memorial Historic SiteFile:22-28-040-davis.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Bust of Davis at Old Warren County CourthouseOld Warren County CourthouseFile:Jefferson Davis Monument, Vicksburg National Military Park.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Memorial at Vicksburg National Military ParkVicksburg National Military ParkFile:Jefferson Davis, Slave Owner.jpg|thumb|The Jefferson Davis monument in New OrleansNew Orleans

• Jefferson Davis is included on a bas-relief sculpture on Stone Mountain, which is just east of Atlanta, Georgia.
• A monument to Jefferson Davis was unveiled on June 3, 1907, on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, and a life-sized statue by George Julian Zolnay marks his grave at Hollywood Cemetery in that city. On June 10, 2020, the monument was toppled by protestors in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd.NEWS, Protesters Topple Statue of Jefferson Davis on Richmond's Monument Avenue,weblink June 11, 2020,
• In May 2015, the student government at the University of Texas at Austin voted almost unanimously to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis that had been erected on the campus South Mall.WEB, Brandeis, Amanda,weblink UT student government votes to remove Jefferson Davis statue, KXAN.com, March 25, 2015, April 5, 2017, Tom McCarthy, "Drive to call time on Confederate flag sweeps south – 150 years after civil war", The Guardian, June 23, 2015. Beginning shortly after the Charleston church shooting of 2015,NEWS,weblink Confederate monuments tagged with anti-racist messages – in pictures &124; World news, The Guardian, April 5, 2017, "Black Lives Matter" had been written repeatedly in bold red letters on the base of the Davis statue. Previous messages had included "Davis must fall" and "Liberate U.T."Associated Press, "'Emancipate UT': Confederate statue defaced at University of Texas", The Guardian, May 9, 2015. University of Texas officials convened a task force to determine whether to honor the students' petition for removal of the statue. Acting on the strong recommendation of the task force, UT's President Gregory Fenves announced on August 13, 2015, that the statue would be relocated to serve as an educational exhibit in the university's Dolph Briscoe Center for American History museum.WEB,weblink Jefferson Davis Statue to be Relocated to Educational Exhibit at History Center &124; UT News &124; The University of Texas at Austin, News.utexas.edu, April 5, 2017, The statue was removed on August 30, 2015.Associated Press, "Texas university removes Confederate president statue from campus," The Guardian, August 30, 2015.
• A statue of Jefferson Davis stood in Memphis Park (originally, "Confederate Park"Johnson, Eugene J. and Robert D. Russell, Jr., Memphis: An Architectural Guide, The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1990 pp.50–50) in Memphis, Tennessee. Removed in 2017.
• A large {{convert|351|ft|m|0|adj=on}} tall concrete obelisk at the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site in Fairview, Kentucky marks the site of his birthplace. Construction of the monument began in 1917 and finished in 1924 at a cost of about $200,000.WEB,weblink Jefferson Davis State Historic Site, Kentucky State Parks, June 14, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130607065835weblink">weblink June 7, 2013, dead,
• A bust of Jefferson Davis is located at the Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site on the spot he was captured, outside Irwinville, Georgia, near Fitzgerald, Georgia.
• Another bust of Jefferson Davis is located outside the Jeff Davis County Court House building in Hazlehurst, Georgia.
• In Pensacola, Florida, an obelisk was dedicated in 1891 in memory of Jefferson Davis, Stephen R. Mallory, Edward Aylesworth Perry, and the Uncrowned Heroes of the Southern Confederacy.WEB

• A statue of Jefferson Davis is depicted in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building, for the state of Mississippi.WEB

• In New Orleans, there was a carved stone memorial to Jefferson Davis at First and Camp streets, next to the home where he died, as well as a life-sized statue at the corner of Jeff Davis Parkway and Canal Street. By decision of the New Orleans City Council in December 2015, the statue was to be removed; opposition lawsuits delayed the removal until May 11, 2017.WEB,weblink Lee Circle battle moves to court: Federal lawsuit filed to halt monuments removal in New Orleans, Torres, Manuel, December 18, 2015, nola.com, The Times-Picayune, December 19, 2015,
• Davis's former burial location at New Orleans' Metairie Cemetery is inscribed with his signature and the dates of his birth and death.
• A statue commemorating the bicentennial of Davis's birth was created by Civil War artist Gary Casteel, on behalf of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. It arrived at Davis's Beauvoir estate in Biloxi, Mississippi on October 14, 2009.
• There are statues of Davis in the Alabama, Virginia, and Kentucky state capitols—in Montgomery, on the grounds in front of the main entrance where he was sworn in as President of the Confederacy; in Richmond, in the old House of Delegates chamber; and inside the rotunda at Frankfort.
• Vicksburg National Military Park, located in Warren County, Mississippi (where the Davis family plantations, Brierfield and Hurricane, were located), contains two statues of Davis. The first is a stand-alone, larger-than-life figure known simply as the Davis Monument; and the second, a life-sized figure, appears next to a statue of Lincoln as part of the Kentucky monument.WEB,weblink President Jefferson Davis – Vicksburg National Military Park (U.S. National Park Service), www.nps.gov,
• A bust of Davis with his second wife Varina is located in the rose garden outside the Old Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
• The 1891 Mississippi Monument to the Confederate Dead in Jackson, contains a life-sized, white marble statue of Jefferson Davis which was carved in Italy. At the time of its dedication, the monument's location was on the original State Capitol grounds in Jackson; it is currently in front of the Charlotte Capers Building on State Street, used by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. In 1922, the statue was removed from the monument and placed in the rotunda of the Old Capitol, which was then used as legislators' offices (later becoming the Old Capitol Museum). In conjunction with the restoration of the Old Capitol and in anticipation of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, the statue was returned to its original location in the monument in 2009.

Schools

• Jefferson Davis Community College in Brewton, Alabama (1965). Renamed Coastal Alabama Community College (2017)NEWS,weblink Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy, Southern Poverty Law Center, June 10, 2018, en,
• Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery, Alabama (1968)WEB,weblink Davis, Jefferson High, March 4, 2017, Jd.mps-al.org, April 5, 2017, Renamed Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School (2022).NEWS, Bowerman, Ashley,weblink Montgomery school board votes to change the Confederate names of three high schools, WSFA, November 10, 2022, June 7, 2023,
• Jefferson Davis Middle School in Jacksonville, Florida (1961)WEB,weblink Jefferson Davis Middle / Homepage, Duvalschools.org, April 5, 2017,
• Jefferson Davis Middle School in West Palm Beach, Florida. (1906). The school mascot is Robert E. Lee's horse Traveller.{{Citation needed|date=June 2018}}
• Jefferson Davis Middle School in West Palm Beach, Florida: Renamed Palm Springs Middle School (2005).NEWS,weblink PBC board dropped Jeff Davis' name from school 10 years ago this week {{!, Extra Credit|last=Isger|first=Sonja|date=June 30, 2015|work=Palm Beach Post|access-date=November 1, 2017}}WEB,weblink Jefferson Davis Middle School Alumni, Yearbooks, Reunions – West Palm Beach, FL, Classmates, April 5, 2017,
• Jeff Davis Elementary, Primary, Middle, and High Schools in Hazlehurst, Georgia
• Jefferson Davis Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana, was renamed for Ernest "Dutch" Morial, the city's first black mayor.WEB,weblink Before Lee Circle, New Orleans schools soul-searched their own ties to slavery, Rainey, Richard, June 24, 2015, nola.com, The Times-Picayune, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150626213027weblink">weblink June 26, 2015,
• Jeff Davis Elementary School in Biloxi, Mississippi (1960). Renamed Back Bay Elementary (2020).
• Jefferson Davis Elementary School in Greenwood, Mississippi (1907).
• Jefferson Davis Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in Gulfport, Mississippi (1965). Renamed Harrison County Campus (2020).WEB, Taft, Isabelle, MGCCC renames Gulfport campus to remove name of Confederate president Jefferson Davis,weblink August 13, 2020, www.msn.com,
• Davis Magnet School in Jackson, Mississippi (1906). Renamed Barack Obama Magnet School (2017).NEWS,weblink School honoring Confederate icon to be renamed after Barack Obama, Villafranca, Omar, 2017, CBS News, June 10, 2018, en,
• Jefferson Davis Academy in Blackville, South CarolinaWEB, Academy, Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis Academy – Private School – Barnwell, South Carolina,weblink November 17, 2020, Jefferson Davis Academy, en-US,
• Jefferson Davis Elementary School in Dallas, Texas {{Citation needed|date=June 2018}}
• Fort Davis AEC School and High School in Fort Davis, Texas.
• Jefferson Davis High School in Houston, Texas (1926).WEB,weblink Northside High School / Homepage, Houstonisd.org, April 5, 2017, Renamed Northside High School (2016).
• Jefferson Davis Middle School in Hampton, Virginia (1960). Renamed Cesar Tarrant Middle School (2018)WEB,weblink School Information – Davis Middle School, Dav.hampton.k12.va.us, April 5, 2017, NEWS,weblink Hampton School Board votes to rename Jefferson Davis Middle School, January 25, 2018, WTKR.com, June 10, 2018, en-US,
• Lee–Davis High School in Mechanicsville, Virginia (1959). Renamed Mechanicsville High School (2020).WEB, Small, Alonzo, Hanover school board officially approves new names for Lee-Davis High, Stonewall Jackson Middle,weblink ABC 8 News, October 15, 2020, October 14, 2020,

Inhabited places

• Jeff Davis County, Georgia (1905)
• Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana (1912)
• Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi (1906)
• CDP of Fort Davis, Texas
• Jeff Davis County, Texas (1887)

Stamps

{{multiple image|align=left|total_width=330|image1=J Davis 1861-5c.jpg|image2=Jefferson Davis in CSA Stamps (5 cent Scott-6 1862).jpg|image3=Jefferson Davis in CSA Stamps (10 cent Scott-11 1863).jpg |caption1=five cent 1861 issue|caption2=five cent 1862 issue |caption3=ten cent 1863 issue |caption_align=center|footer=Jefferson Davis postage stamps|footer_align=center}}(File:Stone Mountain Memorial 6c 1970 issue.JPG|thumb|left|J. Davis on Stone Mountain 1970 issue)Davis appeared on several postage stamps issued by the Confederacy, including its first postage stamp (issued in 1861). In 1995, his portrait appeared on a United States postage stamp, part of a series of 20 stamps commemorating the 130th anniversary of the end of the Civil War.WEB

Holidays

{{Anchor|holidays}}The birthday of Jefferson Davis is commemorated in several states. His actual birthday, June 3, is celebrated in Florida,WEB , and Tennessee;WEB , In Mississippi, the last Monday of May (Memorial Day) is celebrated as "National Memorial Day and Jefferson Davis's Birthday".WEB , In Texas, "Confederate Heroes Day" is celebrated on January 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday; Jefferson Davis's birthday had been officially celebrated on June{{spaces}}3 but was combined with Lee's in 1973.WEB

Miscellaneous

• The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum, on the grounds of Davis' last home, Beauvoir, at Biloxi, Mississippi,WEB

• Jefferson Davis Memorial Park is located in Fitzgerald, Georgia.WEB, Seibert, David, Jefferson Davis Memorial Park,weblink GeorgiaInfo: an Online Georgia Almanac, Digital Library of Georgia, November 7, 2016,
• The state of Alabama celebrates Jefferson Davis's birthday on the first Monday in June. The state of Mississippi observes Davis's birthday in conjunction with the Memorial Day Federal holiday.
• In the States of Florida and Kentucky, Jefferson Davis's birthday, June 3, is a legal holiday and public holiday.WEB

• Jefferson Davis was honorarily inducted into the Kappa Sigma Fraternity (Virginia Military Institute – Xi chapter) following his son's death. He is currently the only honorary member of the fraternity.

File:Davis statue2 copy.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Jefferson Davis grave at the Hollywood Cemetery ]]

• Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution barred from office anyone who had violated their oath to protect the Constitution by serving in the Confederacy. That prohibition included Davis. In 1978, pursuant to authority granted to Congress under the same section of the Amendment, Congress posthumously removed the ban on Davis with a two-thirds vote of each house and President Jimmy Carter signed it. These actions were spearheaded by Congressman Trent Lott of Mississippi. Congress had previously taken similar action on behalf of Robert E. Lee.WEB

• The desk used by Jefferson Davis on the floor of the U.S. Senate, repaired after Union soldiers damaged it during the Civil War, is reserved by Senate Rules for the senior Senator from Mississippi (currently Senator Roger Wicker).WEB

• The former transnational Jefferson Davis Highway was named in his honor. In 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy conceived the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, a transcontinental highway to be built through the South.WEB, Weingroff, Richard F.,weblink Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, Highway History, Federal Highway Administration, United States Department of Transportation, April 7, 2011, September 29, 2011, October 20, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111020053021weblink">weblink live, WEB

, A Sons of Confederate Veterans owned "park" alongside Interstate 5 between Vancouver and Ridgefield, containing the two granite markers which used to reside at each end of the Jefferson Davis Highway in Washington state is named in honor of Davis.WEB

• In 2009, a bronze plaque was dedicated at the site of the old courthouse in Mississippi City, Mississippi, to memorialize the final speech delivered by Jefferson Davis, where he pleaded for unity of all U.S. citizens after the American Civil War.
• Jeff Davis Peak, a variant name of Doso Doyabi, the second highest summit in the Snake Range in Nevada, was named in honor of Jefferson Davis in 1855. Davis was then serving as Secretary of War in the United States government.WEB

• Jefferson Davis Hospital began operations in 1924 and was the first centralized municipal hospital to treat indigent patients in Houston, Texas.WEB, Freemantle, Jeff, Old Jeff Davis Hospital gets Long-term Protection,weblink Houston Chronicle, November 25, 2013, July 13, 2014, July 14, 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140714222236weblink">weblink live, The building was designated as a protected historic landmark on November 13, 2013, by the Houston City Council and is monitored by the Historic Preservation Office of the City of Houston Department of Planning and Development.WEB,weblink Jeff Davis Hospital, several Houston houses receive landmark designation, Houston Chronicle, November 20, 2013, July 12, 2014, November 1, 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20141101213542weblink">weblink live, The hospital was named for Jefferson Davis, former president of the Confederacy, in honor of the Confederate soldiers who had been buried in the cemetery and as a means to console the families of the deceased.WEB, Jefferson Davis Hospital (Elder Street Lofts),weblink Houston Archaeological and Historical Commission, July 13, 2014, July 14, 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140714165323weblink">weblink live,
• The United Daughters of the Confederacy monument to Jefferson Davis at the Fort Crawford Cemetery in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Davis was stationed at Fort Crawford, Michigan Territory in 1831.WEB,weblink Wisconsin Historical Markers: Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), www.wisconsinhistoricalmarkers.com, en, July 29, 2018,
• Fort Davis National Historic Site began as a frontier military post in October 1854, in the mountains of western Texas. It was named after then-United States Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. That fort gave its name to the surrounding Davis Mountains range, and the town of Fort Davis. The surrounding area was designated Jeff Davis County in 1887, with the town of Fort Davis as the county seat. Other states containing a Jefferson (or Jeff) Davis County/Parish include Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
• When Davis evacuated Richmond, his belongings continued on the train bound for Cedar Key, Florida. They were first hidden at Senator David Levy Yulee's plantation in Florida, then placed in the care of a railroad agent in Waldo. On June 15, 1865, Union soldiers seized Davis's personal baggage from the agent, together with some of the Confederate government's records. A historical marker was erected to commemorate this site.BOOK, Boone, Floyd E., 1988, Florida Historical Markers & Sites: A Guide to More Than 700 Historic Sites, Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas, 9780872015586, 15, WEB,weblink Historical Markers in Alachua County, Florida – Dickison and His Men / Jefferson Davis' Baggage, Alachua County Historical Commission, August 4, 2011, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110929003429weblink">weblink September 29, 2011, WEB,weblink Historic Markers Across Florida – Dickison and His Men / Jefferson Davis' Baggage, Latitude 34 North, August 4, 2011, November 10, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131110071019weblink">weblink dead,
• The Papers of Jefferson Davis is an editing project based at Rice University in Houston, Texas to publish documents related to Davis. Since the early 1960s, it has published 14 volumes, the first in 1971 and the most recent in 2015;WEB,weblink Welcome to The Papers of Jefferson Davis, The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Rice University, October 26, 2022, October 23, 2022,weblink live, more volumes are planned. The project has roughly 100,000 documents in its archives.{{citation needed|date=October 2022|reason=the previous source did not mention either of these statements.}}
• The Confederate Memorial Hall Museum has a portrait of Pope Pius IX that he sent to Davis after he was captured. It is inscribed with the Latin words "Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis, et ego reficiam vos, dicit Dominus", which correspond to the Biblical passage of Matthew 11:28, "Come to me, all you that labor, and are burdened, and I will refresh you, sayeth the Lord".Bible {{Bibleverse|Matthew|11:28}} A hand-woven crown of thorns that was probably woven by Davis's wife encircles it.WEB,weblink Update on Jefferson Davis's Crown of Thorns, Civil War Memory, Kevin, Levin, September 27, 2009, August 21, 2011, July 8, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110708215337weblink">weblink live,

Controversy

{{further|Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials}}Many memorials and statues commemorating Davis have been removed as part of a larger, society-wide reckoning with the historical legacy of the Confederacy, as many states and municipalities have re-examined the appropriateness of using public space to honor figures that supported slavery and secession.WEB,weblink 73 Confederate monuments were removed or renamed last year, report finds, Cbs58.com, February 2, 2022, February 14, 2022, February 5, 2022,weblink live, WEB, Racist statues are falling around the world – Anti-racism protests,weblink January 19, 2022, The Economic Times, January 19, 2022,weblink live, WEB, December 15, 2020, Jeff Davis Highway to be renamed in Richmond,weblink January 19, 2022, 8News, en-US, January 19, 2022,weblink live, File:JeffersonDavis Monument, Richmond, VA (cropped).png|Jefferson Davis Monument and statue, Richmond, VA, in 2013.File:Davis Memorial Removed.jpg|Jefferson Davis Monument in Richmond, VA on July 1, 2020, following the protests over the murder of George Floyd. The Davis statue was toppled by protesters on June 10, 2020.NEWS, Katkov, Mark, June 11, 2020, Protesters Topple Jefferson Davis Statue In Richmond, Va., NPR,weblink 2023-09-04,

See also

• List of Confederate monuments and memorials

References

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