Henry Winter Davis

Henry Winter Davis ( born August 16, 1817 in Annapolis, Maryland, † December 30, 1865 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1865 he represented two times the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Davis was a cousin of Henry U.S. Senator, David Davis (1815-1886) from Illinois. He grew up in Alexandria ( Virginia) and Wilmington (Delaware) and received a private school education. In 1827 he returned with his father to Maryland, where they settled in Anne Arundel County. In the meantime, Davis visited the Wilmington College and St. John 's College in Annapolis and the Hampden - Sydney College in Virginia and the Kenyon College in Gambier ( Ohio). After studying law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his 1841 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Alexandria in this profession. In 1850 he moved his residence and his law firm to Baltimore. He also dealt with literary and political affairs. Originally he was a member of the Whigs. In the 1850s he joined the American Party.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Davis was the fourth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Thomas Hamilton on 4 March 1855. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1861 three legislative periods. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. In 1860, Davis was not re-elected. He then became a member of the Republican Party. In 1862 he was elected as a Unionist in the third district of his state again in Congress, where he became the successor of Cornelius Leary on March 4, 1863. Since he resigned in 1864 to run again, he could spend another term in Congress until March 3, 1865. This was determined by the events of the Civil War. During this time, Davis was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He was an opponent of the proposed by President Abraham Lincoln after the war reintegration of southern states. In 1864, Davis opted not to re-election. He died on December 30, 1865 in Baltimore.