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How would it be possible to get Jefferson Davis to become president of the United States in 1861? In actual history Jefferson Davis was nominated in the 1860 democratic national convention, ironically by future union general Benjamin Butler. And what would have happened if Jefferson Davis had been successfully nominated for the presidency of the Democratic Party in 1860? Could he have defeated Lincoln? Would the Civil War have been averted or delayed? How would slavery have ended if the Civil War hadn't happened under said Davis presidency?