James S. Davenport

James Sanford Davenport ( * September 21, 1864 at Gaylesville, Cherokee County, Alabama; † 3 January 1940 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1917 he represented intermittently the third and the first electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1880 James Davenport moved with his parents to Conway in Arkansas, where he attended the public schools. After he graduated from the Vilona High School and the Greenbrier Academy. After a subsequent study of law and its 1890 lawyer was admitted to Davenport began in Conway to work in his new profession.

In the year 1890 he moved to Muskogee in Oklahoma today. In 1893 he established himself in Vinita, where he also practiced as a lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1897 and 1901, Davenport was a member of the Governing Council in Oklahoma Territory, where he was president of that body in the last two years. Between 1901 and 1907 he was one of the lawyers of the Cherokee Indians. In the years 1903 and 1904 he was mayor of Vinita.

After Oklahoma became a regular state of the United States, James Davenport was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. This mandate he held between 16 November 1907 to 3 March 1909. In 1908, his failed attempt at a direct re-election. In the elections of 1910 he managed to return to the Congress. In 1912 he was confirmed in his constituency, in 1914 he made the re- entry into the House of Representatives in the first district of Oklahoma. Thus he was able to complete a total of three consecutive parliamentary terms in Congress between 4 March 1911 to 3 March 1917. In 1916 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in Congress, James Davenport worked as a lawyer in Vinita again. In 1926 he became a judge on an appeals court in Oklahoma. This office he held until his death in 1940.