Amos Davis

Amos Davis ( born August 15, 1794 in Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky, † June 11, 1835 in Owingsville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1835, he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Amos Davis was the older brother of Garrett Davis (1801-1872), who was 1839-1847 congressman and 1861-1872 U.S. Senator for the state of Kentucky. He attended the schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Mount Sterling to work in this profession. He was also sheriff in Montgomery County. Davis hit among its other activities also a political career. Between 1819 and 1828 he was several times as a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the years 1826 and 1830, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in each case.

In the 1820s, Davis joined the movement against the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party, which merged mid-1830s in the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1832 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Albert Gallatin Hawes on March 4, 1833. By March 3, 1835 Davis completed a term in Congress. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

For the elections of 1836 Davis was planning a bid for the recovery of his 1834 lost to Richard French mandate. He died at the June 1835 in an early election rally in Owingsville. Amos Davis was buried in his hometown of Mount Sterling.