page_title: List of memorials to Jefferson Davis
section_title: Miscellaneous
hierarchical_section_title: List of memorials to Jefferson Davis / Miscellaneous
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque commemorating the 1888 speech by en:Jefferson Davis at the site of the old Harrison County Courthouse in en:Mississippi City, Mississippi, USA
context_page_description: The following is a list of the memorials to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America.
context_section_description: The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum, on the grounds of Davis' last home, Beauvoir, at Biloxi, Mississippi, was dedicated in 1998 by the state of Mississippi and includes a bronze statue of Davis by Mississippi artist Bill Beckwith.
  Jefferson Davis Memorial Park is located in Fitzgerald, Georgia.
  The state of Alabama celebrates Jefferson Davis's birthday on the first Monday in June. The state of Mississippi observes Davis's birthday in conjunction with the Memorial Day Federal holiday.
  In the States of Florida and Kentucky, Jefferson Davis's birthday, June 3, is a legal holiday and public holiday.
  Jefferson Davis was honorarily inducted into the Kappa Sigma Fraternity (Virginia Military Institute - Xi chapter) following his son's death. He is currently the only honorary member of the fraternity.
  Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution barred from office anyone who had violated their oath to protect the Constitution by serving in the Confederacy. That prohibition included Davis. In 1978, pursuant to authority granted to Congress under the same section of the Amendment, Congress posthumously removed the ban on Davis with a two-thirds vote of each house and President Jimmy Carter signed it. These actions were spearheaded by Congressman Trent Lott of Mississippi. Congress had previously taken similar action on behalf of Robert E. Lee.
  The desk used by Jefferson Davis on the floor of the U.S. Senate, repaired after Union soldiers damaged it during the Civil War, is reserved by Senate Rules for the senior Senator from Mississippi (currently Senator Roger Wicker).
  The former transnational Jefferson Davis Highway was named in his honor. A Sons of Confederate Veterans owned "park" alongside Interstate 5 between Vancouver and Ridgefield, containing the two granite markers which used to reside at each end of the Jefferson Davis Highway in Washington state is named in honor of Davis.
  In 2009, a bronze plaque was dedicated at the site of the old courthouse in Mississippi City, Mississippi, to memorialize the final speech delivered by Jefferson Davis, where he pleaded for unity of all U.S. citizens after the American Civil War.
  Jeff Davis Peak, a variant name of Doso Doyabi, the second highest summit in the Snake Range in Nevada, was named in honor of Jefferson Davis in 1855. Davis was then serving as Secretary of War in the United States government.
  Jefferson Davis Hospital operated in Houston, Texas, from 1924 to 1938. After the hospital (on Elder St.) closed, health services moved to a separate facility, called Jefferson Davis (but not "hospital"), on Allen Parkway.
  The United Daughters of the Confederacy monument to Jefferson Davis at the Fort Crawford Cemetery in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Davis was stationed at Fort Crawford, Michigan Territory in 1831.
caption: Memorial of Jefferson Davis's final speech.
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