Dannite H. Mays

Dannite Hill Mays (* April 28, 1852 in Madison, Madison County, Florida; † May 9, 1930 in Monticello, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1913 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Dannite Mays attended public schools in his hometown and in Savannah (Georgia ). He then studied at Washington and Lee University in Lexington ( Virginia). After his studies he moved to Monticello, where he worked in agriculture. Politically Mays was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1888 he was a delegate to the regional convention in Florida. In the years 1891, 1895 and 1897, he was elected to the House of Representatives from Florida, which he was president in 1897. In the years 1900 and 1904 he applied unsuccessfully to each his party's nomination for election to the Governor of Florida.

In the congressional elections of 1908 Mays was in the third electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Bailey Lamar on March 4, 1909. After a re-election in 1910 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1913 two legislative sessions. In 1912, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. After his retirement from the House of Representatives Mays returned to Monticello, where he recorded his previous agricultural activity again. There he is on May 9, 1930 and passed away.