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The following is a list of the memorials to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America. *The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library, 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Beauvoir – The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library )〕 *Jefferson Davis is included on a bas relief sculpture on Stone Mountain, which is just east of Atlanta, Georgia. *A monument to Jefferson Davis was unveiled on June 3, 1907, on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia and a life-sized statue by George Julian Zolnay marks his grave at Hollywood Cemetery in that city. The monument was defaced with the words "black lives matter" shortly after the Charleston church shooting of 2015.〔"Confederate monuments tagged with anti-racist messages", ''The Guardian'', June 26, 2016, http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/jun/26/confederate-monuments-racist-black-lives-matter-pictures〕 *A statue of Jefferson Davis stands in Memphis Park in Memphis, Tennessee. *In May 2015, the student government at the University of Texas at Austin voted almost unanimously to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis that had been erected on the campus South Mall.〔http://kxan.com/2015/03/25/ut-student-government-votes-to-remove-jefferson-davis-statue/〕〔Tom McCarthy, "Drive to call time on Confederate flag sweeps south – 150 years after civil war", ''The Guardian'', 23 June 2015.〕 Beginning shortly after the Charleston church shooting of 2015,〔"Confederate monuments tagged with anti-racist messages", ''The Guardian'', June 26, 2016, http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/jun/26/confederate-monuments-racist-black-lives-matter-pictures.〕 "black lives matter" had been written repeatedly in bold red letters on the base of the Davis statue. Previous messages had included "Davis must fall" and "Liberate U.T."〔Associated Press, "'Emancipate UT': Confederate statue defaced at University of Texas", ''The Guardian'', May 9, 2015.〕 The University of Texas officials convened a task force to determine whether to honor the students petition for removal of the statue. Acting on the strong recommendation of the task force, UT's President Gregory Fenves announced on August 13, 2015 that the statue would be relocated to serve as an educational exhibit in the university's Dolph Briscoe Center for American History museum.〔http://news.utexas.edu/2015/08/13/jefferson-davis-statue-to-be-relocated-to-briscoe-center〕 The statue was removed on August 30, 2015.〔Associated Press, "Texas university removes Confederate president statue from campus," ''The Guardian'', August 30, 2015.〕 *A tall concrete obelisk at the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site in Fairview, Kentucky marks the site of his birthplace. *A bust statue of Jefferson Davis is located at the Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site on the spot he was captured, outside of Irwinville, Georgia near Fitzgerald, Georgia. *Another bust of Jefferson Davis is located outside of the Jeff Davis County Court House building in Hazlehurst, 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 State of Florida, Jefferson Davis's birthday, June 3, is a legal holiday and public holiday.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The 2010 Florida Statutes (including Special Session A) )〕 *In Pensacola, Florida, an obelisk was dedicated in 1891 in memory of Jefferson Davis, Stephen R. Mallory, Edward Aylesworth Perry, and the Uncrowned Heroes of the Southern Confederacy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Confederate Memorial )〕 *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. *Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi; Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana; Jeff Davis County, Texas; and Jeff Davis County, Georgia: all created after the civil war, were named after Jefferson Davis. *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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jimmy Carter: Restoration of Citizenship Rights to Jefferson F. Davis Statement on Signing S. J. Res. 16 into Law )〕 *The desk of 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 to the senior Senator from Mississippi (currently Senator Thad Cochran).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jefferson Davis Desk )〕 *The former transnational Jefferson Davis Highway was named in his honor. *A park alongside Interstate-5 between Vancouver and Ridgefield, Washington, that contains the two granite markers that used to reside at each end of the Jefferson Davis Highway in Washington state is named in honor of Jefferson Davis.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of the Jefferson Davis Park )〕 *A statue of Jefferson Davis is depicted in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building, for the state of Mississippi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jefferson Davis )〕 * There is a carved stone memorial to Jefferson Davis at First and Camp Streets, next to the home where he died, in New Orleans, La, as well as a life-sized statue at the corner of Jefferson Davis Parkway and Canal Street. *A statue commemorating the bicentennial of Davis's birth was recently completed by noted Civil War artist Gary Casteel, on behalf of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. It arrived at Beauvoir on October 14, 2009.〔 *There are statues of Davis in the Alabama, Virginia and Kentucky State Capitols—in Montgomery, on the grounds in front of the main entrance where he was sworn in as President of the Confederacy; in Richmond, in the old house of delegates chamber; and inside the rotunda at Frankfort. *Vicksburg National Military Park located in Warren County, Mississippi (where the Davis family plantations, Brierfield and Hurricane, were located) contains two statues of Davis, the first a stand-alone, larger-than-life figure known simply as the Davis Monument and the second, a life-sized figure, which appears beside a statue of Lincoln as part of the Kentucky monument. A bust of Davis and his second wife, Varina, is located in the rose garden outside the Old Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg. *His former burial location in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans is marked with a signature of him and the dates of birth and death. * The 1891 Mississippi Monument to the Confederate Dead in Jackson, contains a life-sized, white marble statue of Jefferson Davis which was carved in Italy. At the time of its dedication, the monument's location was on the original State Capitol grounds in Jackson; it is currently in front of the Charlotte Capers Building on State Street, used by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. In 1922, the statue was removed from the monument and placed in the rotunda of the Old Capitol, which was then used as legislators' offices (later becoming the Old Capitol Museum). In conjunction with the restoration of the Old Capitol and in anticipation of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, the statue was returned to its original location in the monument in 2009. * 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, 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Why Wheeler Peak? )〕 * Numerous schools have been named for Jefferson Davis. These include: * * Jefferson Davis Community College in Brewton, Alabama * * Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery, Alabama〔http://www.jd.mps-al.org, consulted 6/10/2015〕 * * Davis High School in Houston, Texas〔http://www.houstonisd.org/davishigh, coonsulted 6/10/2015.〕 * * Jefferson Davis Middle School in Jacksonville, Florida〔http://www.duvalschools.org/jeffdavis, consulted 6/10/2015.〕 * * Jefferson Davis Middle School in West Palm Beach, Florida (renamed)〔http://www.classmates.com/places/school/Jefferson-Davis-Middle-School/17199751, consulted 6/10/2014.〕 * * Davis Middle School in Hampton, Virginia〔http://dav.hampton.k12.va.us/school-information, consulted 6/10/2015〕 * * Jeff Davis Elementary School in Biloxi, Mississippi〔http://www.biloxischools.net/Domain/11, consulted 6/10/2015〕 * * Jefferson Davis Elementary School in Dallas, Texas * * Jefferson Davis Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana (renamed for Ernest "Dutch" Morial, New Orleans' first black mayor)〔Richard Rainey, "Before Lee Circle, New Orleans schools soul-searched their own ties to slavery, ''The Times-Picayune'', June 24, 2015, http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/06/before_lee_circle_new_orleans.html〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of memorials to Jefferson Davis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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