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United States Senator Jefferson Davis, about a year before he became President of the Confederate States of America. Library of Congress attributes this original photograph to about 1859 when Davis was still a US Senator. Wilson, 2013, p. 58,p. 156 also puts the photograph before the war. Wilson, Robert (2013) Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation, Bloomsbury ISBN: 9781620402030. OCLC: 1150291751.
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