George T. Davis

George Thomas Davis ( born January 12, 1810 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, † June 17, 1877 in Portland, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Davis studied until 1829 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree in 1832 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Greenfield to work in this profession. In 1833 he founded the newspaper " Franklin Mercury ". Politically, he was a member of the Whig party. In 1839 and 1840 he sat in the Senate from Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1850 Davis was the sixth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Ashmun on March 4, 1851. Since he resigned in 1852 for re-election, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1853. This was shaped by the events and discussions that preceded the Civil War. It focused mainly on the question of slavery.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives George Davis practiced law in Taunton and Greenfield. In 1861 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He later moved to Portland, Maine, where he died on 17 June 1877.