James H. Davidson

James Henry Davidson ( born June 18, 1858 in Colchester, Delaware County, New York; † August 6, 1918 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1913, and again from 1917 to 1918, he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Davidson attended the public schools of his home and then the Walton Academy. Then he taught himself for several years in Delaware County and Sullivan County as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree from Albany Law School and its made ​​in 1884 admitted to the bar he began in Princeton (Wisconsin ) to work in his new profession. In addition, he taught continue as a teacher. In 1888, Davidson was district attorney in Green Lake County.

Politically, Davidson member of the Republican Party. In 1890 he was chairman of the Republican congressional committee in the sixth Congressional District of Wisconsin. In 1892 he moved to Oshkosh, where he continued his profession. From 1895 to 1897 he was a legal adviser of his new hometown. In the congressional elections of 1896 Davidson was selected in the sixth district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Samuel A. Cook on March 4, 1897. After seven elections he was able to complete in 1913 eight contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. Since 1903, he represented there as a successor to Edward S. Minor the eighth district of his state. From 1899 to 1911 he was Chairman of the Railway and Canal Committee ( Committee on Railways and Canals ). During his first term in Congress of the Spanish-American War took place.

In 1912 and 1914, Davidson competed unsuccessfully to his whereabouts or in his return to the Congress. During this time he worked again as a lawyer. In the 1916 elections, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives again in the sixth district. On March 4, 1917, he broke there from Michael Reilly. But he could not finish his actually runs until March 3, 1919 term of office, since he died in Washington already on 6 August 1918. His last legislative period was determined by the events of the First World War. James Davidson was buried in Oshkosh.

Delaware County (New York) Sullivan County (New York) Princeton (Wisconsin) Green Lake County, Wisconsin Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Wisconsin Territory George W. Jones James Duane Doty Henry Dodge Morgan Lewis Martin John Hubbard Tweedy Henry Hastings Sibley William Pitt Lynde Charles Durkee Daniel Wells, Jr. John F. Potter James S. Brown Halbert E. Paine Alexander Mitchell (politician) Charles G. Williams John Winans Lucien B. Caswell Clinton Babbitt Henry Allen Cooper Clifford E. Randall George Washington Blanchard Stephen Bolles Lawrence H. Smith Gerald T. Flynn Henry C. Schadeberg Lynn E. Stalbaum Peter W. Barca Mark Neumann Paul Ryan Mason C. Darling Orsamus Cole Ben C. Eastman Cadwallader C. Washburn Walter D. McIndoe Ithamar Sloan Benjamin F. Hopkins David Atwood Gerry Whiting Hazelton Daniel H. Sumner Edward S. Bragg Richard W. Guenther Charles Barwig Edward Sauerhering Herman Dahle Henry Cullen Adams John M. Nelson Michael E. Burke Edward Voigt Charles A. Kading Charles W. Henney Harry Sauthoff Charles Hawks, Jr. Robert Kirkland Henry Glenn Robert Davis Donald Edgar Tewes Scott L. Klug Tammy Baldwin Mark Pocan John B. Macy Charles Billinghurst Charles H. Larrabee A. Scott Sloan Amasa Cobb J. Allen Barber Henry S. Magoon George Cochrane Hazelton Burr W. Jones Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Allen R. Bushnell Joseph W. Babcock James William Murphy Arthur W. Kopp James G. Monahan Gardner R. Withrow Harry W. Griswold William H. Stevenson Alvin Baldus Ron Kind Charles A. Eldredge Peter V. Deuster Isaac W. Van Schaick Henry Smith (Wisconsin) John L. Mitchell Peter J. Somers William J. Cary John C. Kleczka John C. Schafer Raymond Joseph Cannon Thaddeus Wasielewski John C. Brophy Clement J. Zablocki Jerry Kleczka Gwen Moore Ezra Wheeler Philetus Sawyer Samuel D. Burchard Joseph Rankin George H. Brickner Samuel S. Barney William H. Stafford Lewis D. Thill Howard J. McMurray Andrew Biemiller Charles J. Kersten Henry S. Reuss Jim Moody Alanson M. Kimball Gabriel Bouck Charles B. Clark Lucas M. Miller Owen A. Wells Charles H. Weisse Florian Lampert Frank Bateman Keefe William Van Pelt John Abner Race William A. Steiger Tom Petri Herman L. Humphrey Gilbert M. Woodward Ormsby B. Thomas Frank P. Coburn George B. Shaw Michael Griffin (politician) John J. Esch Joseph D. Beck Merlin Hull Gerald J. Boileau Dave Obey Sean Duffy Alexander S. McDill George W. Cate Thaddeus C. Pound William T. Price Hugh H. Price Nils P. Haugen Lyman E. Barnes Edward E. Browne James F. Hughes George J. Schneider Joshua L. Johns John W. Byrnes Harold Vernon Froehlich Robert John Cornell Toby Roth Jay W. Johnson Mark Andrew Green Steve Kagen Isaac Stephenson Thomas Lynch (congressman) Alexander Stewart (American politician) Webster E. Brown David G. Classon James A. Frear Lester Johnson (politician) Bob Kasten John J. Jenkins Elmer A. Morse Hubert H. Peavey Bernard J. Gehrmann Irvine Lenroot Adolphus Peter Nelson
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