jefferson davis served as president of the confederate states of america.
who served as president of the confederate states of america?
jefferson davis
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section::::further reading.
confederate states congress
bullet::::- in harry turtledove's alternate history novel "" as part of the southern victory series, al smith was elected as the 32nd president in 1936 after defeating democratic incumbent herbert hoover and his running mate william edgar borah. after upton sinclair and hosea blackford, he was the third member of the socialist party to hold that office. president smith's first act was to normalize the situation in utah, putting an end to military rule and returning control to civilians. he then removed the military garrison in houston and disbanded the kentucky state police. however, he did nothing overt to deal with the country's economy, although he did permit the country's continued rebuilding of its military, albeit at a relatively slow pace. throughout smith's first term, his counterpart in the confederate states of america, president jake featherston, had demanded the return of territories the cs had lost to the us during the great war, implying that the c.s. was prepared to retake those territories by force. smith, wanting to avoid another war, while realising that the american people were tired of the troublesome former confederate states, finally agreed to meet with featherston in richmond, virginia, the confederate capital. the result was the richmond agreement. featherston obtained a promise from smith for plebiscites the three former states in houston, kentucky and sequoyah, provided smith won the 1940 election. in turn, smith extracted from featherston a promise that the plebiscites would be held in a fair atmosphere, that blacks would be allowed to vote for self-determination, that featherston would not to ask for any more territory, and that any state that changed hands would be demilitarized for 25 years. while featherston paid the richmond agreement lip service, in truth he had intended to break its terms immediately. based on his success in concluding the richmond agreement, smith was re-elected in 1940. the terms of the agreement, including plebiscites, were carried out early in january 1941. instead of allowing 25 years to pass before sending confederate troops and barrels into kentucky and houston (now once again western texas), featherston broke his promise in 25 days. freedom party stalwarts blew up a police station and blamed it on pro-usa terrorists, inventing an incident for featherston to use as an excuse to place the confederate states army on the banks of the ohio river. he also demanded the remaining territory that the united states possessed. with the richmond agreement shredded, smith refused to negotiate with his confederate counterpart and mobilised the united states army. featherston continued to issue ultimatums until june 1941. when smith refused to cave in to featherston, the confederate states president initiated operation blackbeard, the csa's war plan for a quick overwhelming victory. by throwing all the offensive units into one army, the confederacy pushed through ohio cutting the usa in half. confederate forces reached sandusky, a town on the shore lake erie, in the first week of august 1941. after the usa was cut in two, featherston demanded the usa surrender, offering terms such as a cs occupation of the us frontier and a reduced us military. president smith angrily refused, much to featherston's surprise, and ordered us counterattacks against the confederate salient while preparing for an offensive in virginia that autumn. while the virginia attack was not wholly successful, the continued fighting in the salient robbed featherston of the short war he needed in the face of superior us resources. while smith had appeared naive in dealing with featherston, he nonetheless ordered his war department to begin building a uranium bomb early in 1941. the project was managed by assistant secretary of war franklin d. roosevelt. the war took its toll on smith. while he was able to keep the country unified and fighting, many questioned his policy in dealing with the confederacy prior to the war. smith was killed in the powel house, the presidential residence, in 1942, during a confederate bombing raid which damaged the building. in response, united states bombers targeted the gray house, the confederate states presidential residence. smith was succeeded by his vice president, charles w. la follette, who eventually led the united states to victory over the confederate states and its allies on july 14, 1944. in spite of this, la follette lost the 1944 election to the democratic candidate thomas e. dewey, who became the 34th president. smith's legacy is viewed in mixed terms. some have argued that his decision to deal with featherston diplomatically rather than militarily from the outset very nearly proved to be the country's undoing. others have argued that in the situation smith inherited (a weak economy, a weak military, restive populations who didn't want to be citizens), smith probably made the best choices available to him.
list of fictional united states presidencies of historical figures (s–u)