Dwight F. Davis

Dwight Filley Davis ( born July 5, 1879 in St. Louis, Missouri, † November 28, 1945 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician ( Minister of War ), tennis player and founder of the Davis Cup.

Biography

He donated a student at Harvard the Davis Cup; a trophy made ​​of silver. The Davis Cup is a team competition in tennis and is played every year since 1900.

Davis won with the American team in 1900 and 1902 Davis Cup. He won the double in 1899, 1900 and 1901, with Holcombe Ward at the U.S. Open. In 1904 he took part in the Summer Olympic Games, in a double, he retired with his partner in the quarter- finals. In 1956 posthumous induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

After the end of his career as a tennis player Davis rose as a Republican in politics and was among others from 1925 to 1929 Minister of War in the cabinet of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. Then he pulled on July 8, 1929 Henry L. Stimson and Eugene Allen Gilmore from as Governor General of the Philippines. This office he held until January 9, 1932.

United States Department of War Henry Knox Timothy Pickering James McHenry Samuel Dexter Henry Dearborn William Eustis James Monroe John C. Calhoun James Barbour Peter Buell Porter Lewis Cass Joel Roberts Poinsett John Bell (Tennessee politician) James Madison Porter William Wilkins (U.S. politician) William L. Marcy Charles Magill Conrad Jefferson Davis Simon Cameron John Schofield John Aaron Rawlins William Tecumseh Sherman Alphonso Taft Alexander Ramsey Robert Todd Lincoln Redfield Proctor Elihu Root Luke Edward Wright John W. Weeks Patrick J. Hurley Robert P. Patterson Wesley Merritt Elwell Stephen Otis Arthur MacArthur, Jr. Adna Chaffee Henry Clay Ide James Francis Smith William Cameron Forbes Newton W. Gilbert Francis Burton Harrison Charles Yeater Leonard Wood George C. Butte Frank Murphy Integrated Authority File
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