John Davis (Kansas politician)

John Davis ( born August 9, 1826 Springfield, Illinois; † August 1, 1901 in Topeka, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1895 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1830, John Davis moved with his parents in the Macon County. There he attended the public schools. After he graduated from the Springfield Academy and Illinois College in Jacksonville. Then he began to work in Decatur in agriculture and horticulture. In 1872 he moved to Kansas, where he settled on a farm near Junction City. Davis was for many years secretary of the local horticultural society (Central Kansas Horticultural Society ). In 1873 he was elected president of the first Farmer - Assembly of Kansas. This then was a farmer movement that rose in the 1880s in the short-lived Populist Party. In 1875, he became owner and editor of the newspaper " Junction City Tribune ".

Politically, Davis was an opponent of slavery and a supporter of the Republican Party and its neighbors from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln. Later he joined the short-lived also Greenback Party, as their candidate, he unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 1880 and 1882 respectively. He then became a member of the Populist Party. In 1890 he was a candidate whose state -wide for the fifth deputy seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Alexander Anderson on March 3, 1891. In the elections of 1892 were voted in Kansas to electoral districts and Davis was re-elected in the fifth district. Thus he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 two legislative sessions. There he stood up for the nationwide women's suffrage. For the 1894 elections, he was defeated by Republican William A. Calderhead.

After the end of his time in Congress, John Davis withdrew from politics and focused on literary matters. He died on 1 August 1901 in Topeka, capital of Kansas, where he was also buried.

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