Which American statesman served as President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865?

• A. Abraham Lincoln
• B. Jefferson Davis
• C. Ulysses S. Grant
• D. Robert E. Lee

Answer: (B)

The question is about who led the Confederate States as its president during the Civil War era. Jefferson Davis was a Mississippi statesman who had served in the U.S. Senate and as Secretary of War, and he was elected as the president of the Confederate States of America. He served as the constitutional head of the Confederacy from its founding in 1861 until the Confederacy collapsed in 1865. The other figures played major roles in the war but did not hold that office: Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant was a leading Union general (and later president of the United States), and Robert E. Lee was a Confederate general.