Why doesn't the Whitehouse.gov website include Jefferson Davis in the line of past presidents?

Question

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

I was taught in school (25+ years ago) was included as one of the presidents of the US.

Why doesn't the whitehouse website include him? Isn't this leaving out a very important part of history?

Answer 1

Are  you joking?  You were taught in school he was a President of the United States?  

I feel sorry for you and the thousands of other children your public school did a great injustice to.  You should petition to get your parents' property tax dollars back.

On the bright side, you've only bolstered my argument for privatization of the school system...

Answer 2

he served as leader of the Confederate States of America during the Great War of Northern Aggression...Americans don't count that as being in the Presidential linage

Answer 3

Jefferson Davis wasn't president of the U.S., he was president of the Confederacy. That's not the same thing.

Answer 4

You were taught wrong 25+ yrs ago.  Jefferson Davis was President of the Confederate States of America (CSA), not the United States of America (USA)

Answer 5

He wasn't a president of the US he was President of the Confederate states that lost the Civil War.