Garrett Davis

Garrett Davis ( born September 10, 1801 in Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky; † September 22, 1872 in Paris, Kentucky) was an American politician who represented the state of Kentucky in both chambers of Congress.

After completing his school education, Garrett Davis took a position in the administration of the Montgomery County; later he moved in the same function in Bourbon County. He was admitted in 1823 after completion of law school to the bar and began in Paris to practice the county seat of Bourbon County.

He served as a deputy in the House of Representatives from Kentucky 1833-1835 His first political office. In 1838 he was elected for the Whigs in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served from March 4, 1839 until March 3, 1847; there he was, among others, Chairman of the Committee on the Territories ( Committee on Territories).

1846, Davis decided not to run again, preferring instead to work as a lawyer, as well as in agriculture. Several offers, return to politics, he beat out: the nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1848, to be him angetragenene candidacy for governor by the American Party in 1855 and eventually the option of the candidate of that party for the U.S. presidency in 1856.

As an opponent of secession Davis returned in 1860 back into political life. The following year he became a candidate of the Constitutional Union Party, a merger of former Whig and American Party members elected to the U.S. Senate; after the disintegration of that party, he began his second term of office as a Democrat. Davis died in 1872 in office.