America’s Worst President: How Jefferson Davis Lost the Civil War — Market Mad House

Strangely America’s worst president never served in the White House. Instead, the worst head of government in American history was Confederate President Jefferson Davis (D-Mississippi).

Davis’s incompetence and bungling was of epic proportions. For instance, Davis; more than anybody else, was the architect of Confederate defeat in the American Civil War.

Thus, Davis did America a great service. Jefferson Davis did more to destroy American slavery; an institution he loved, than any abolitionist. Moreover, Davis was responsible for the destruction of the Southern Society he loved.

Jefferson Davis, a Failure who Looked Great on Paper

In common with three other bad presidents; James Monroe (R-Virginia), Andrew Jackson (D-Tennessee), and James Buchanan (D-Pennsylvania), Davis “looked great on paper.”

Jefferson Finis Davis (D-Mississippi) had a tremendous resume when the Confederate Congress elected him provisional President of the Confederacy. Davis was a West Point Graduate, a former Army Officer, and a war hero. In addition, Davis had served as a Congressman, a U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of War before the Civil War.