Pop quiz 🎉 what was Jefferson Davis prior to the war
Among a few things I will probably miss here: He was a USMA (West Point) graduate, a U.S. Army Colonel of a Mississippi regiment in the Mexican/American War, A son-in-law to U.S. President & General Zachary Taylor, brother-in-law to Confederate Lt. General Richard Taylor, U.S. Secretary of War, a successful planter, a U.S. Senator from Mississippi, and General of Mississippi State Troops (immediately before becoming the Confederate president).
