Warren R. Davis

Warren Ransom Davis ( born May 8, 1793 in Columbia, South Carolina, † January 29, 1835 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1827 and 1835, he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, Warren Davis attended until 1810, the South Carolina College in Columbia, later the University of South Carolina emerged from the. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1814 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Pendleton. Between 1818 and 1824 he was a prosecutor in the Western District Court of South Carolina.

In the 1820s, Davis joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and was then a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. In 1826 he was in the sixth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Wilson on March 4, 1827. After several re- elections he could remain until his death on January 29, 1835 in Congress.

Since about 1830, Davis joined the US-led John C. Calhoun Nullifier Group, for which he was elected in the next elections to Congress. That he went into opposition to President Jackson. During the Nullifikationskrise Davis supported the state of South Carolina in its effort to put federal laws on its territory except force. Other points of discussion in Congress were the implementation of the controversial Indian Removal Act and the Bank's policy of President Jackson. Between 1831 and 1833, Davis was chairman of the Legal Committee. He was buried at the Congress Cemetery in Washington.