George M. Davison

George Mosby Davison ( born March 23, 1855 in Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky, † December 18, 1912 ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Davison attended the common schools and the Stanford Academy and the Academy Meyers. After a subsequent law studies and his 1879 was admitted to a lawyer, he began working at Stanford in this profession. Between 1885 and 1889 he was a tax on the sixth financial district of Kentucky; 1886 to 1893, he worked on behalf of the District Court in Lincoln County. At this court he served 1894-1896 as a judge.

Politically Davison was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1886 and 1888 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1896 he was in the eighth election district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat James B. McCreary on March 4, 1897. Since he lost to George G. Gilbert in the elections of 1898, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1899. In this time of the Spanish-American War was.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives George Davison practiced first as a lawyer again. Between 1900 and 1910 he was a federal prosecutor for the eastern area of ​​the state of Kentucky. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on 18 December 1912 in his home town of Stanford.