The Provisional Confederate Congress, for a time the legislative branch of the Confederate States of America, was the body which drafted the Confederate Constitution, elected Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy, and designed the first Confederate flag. Unlike the later bicameral Confederate Congress, the Provisional Congress consisted of only one house and its members were referred to as deputies and delegates.
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President of the Provisional Congress
President pro tempore
Deputies from the first seven states to secede formed the first two sessions of the Congress.
Representatives from states to secede after the Battle of Fort Sumter were referred to as delegates, in contrast to the deputies from the original seven states.