Robert T. Davis

Robert Thompson Davis ( born August 28, 1823 in County Down, United Kingdom, † October 29, 1906 in Fall River, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1889 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already in 1826 Robert Davis came from his Irish home in the United States, where the family settled in Amesbury (Massachusetts ). He attended the Amesbury Academy and the Friends' School in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). After a subsequent study of medicine at Harvard University and his 1847 was admitted as a doctor, he began to work in this profession, first in Boston and then in Waterville (Maine). In 1850 he moved to Fall River. In his new home he began a political career. In 1853 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the constitution of Massachusetts. Later he became a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. Between 1859 and 1861 Davis was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. In the years 1860, 1876 and 1900 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant to those of Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley was nominated as the presidential candidate. In 1863 he joined the then newly created welfare committee of his state. After the establishment of the Health Committee in 1869, he also belonged to this. Moreover, he was elected in 1873 as mayor of Fall River.

In the congressional elections of 1882 Davis was the first electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William W. Crapo on March 4, 1883. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1889 three legislative periods. In 1888, Davis opted not to run again. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a doctor again in Fall River. In addition, he worked in the cotton processing. Robert Davis died on 29 October 1906 in Fall River.