U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, asked Judge Liles C. Burke about the portrait during a confirmation hearing.

The room is decorated with a Confederate flag and a portrait of Jefferson Davis. A jury that deliberated in that room convicted a black defendant of aggravated assault.

President Donald Trump’s pick for a federal judgeship in Alabama defended his decision to hang a portrait on his chamber wall of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, citing its ...

When the city of New Orleans had a century-old memorial to Jefferson Davis torn down before daybreak Thursday, a crowd of the Confederate leader’s sympathizers stood by, chanting: “President ...

Retropolis Why Jefferson Davis was loathed in the Confederacy he led. While VA Secretary Robert Wilkie once praised the Confederate president as “exceptional,” some of his generals despised him.

A portrait of Jefferson Davis, the former Confederate president, hangs in the Pentagon Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages Get the USA TODAY app U.S. Politics Sports ...

Davis was born in Kentucky on June 3, 1808. However, Alabama observes it on the first Monday in June. Davis served as president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War and had a ...

Full-length portrait of Jefferson Davis, dressed in period frock-coat. He is depicted standing, with proper right arm outstretched and proper left arm resting on a book, atop a column rising above ...

Meanwhile, the Confederate states, which were now led by Jefferson Davis, were building what they conceived of as their own country. In the eyes of the white South, Lincoln was a threat.

This week, new details emerged about his veneration of Davis, whom Wilkie praised as a "martyr to the 'Lost Cause'" in a 1995 speech at the U.S. Capitol for a Davis birthday celebration.