John G. Davis

John Givan Davis ( * October 10, 1810 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky; † January 18, 1866 in Terre Haute, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1861 he represented two times the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1819, John Davis came with his parents to Rockville in Indiana, where he attended the public schools. After that, he worked in agriculture. Between 1830 and 1833, Davis was as Sheriff Sheriff in Parke County. From 1833 to 1850 he served as usher at the local district court. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1850 Davis was in the seventh election district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward W. McGaughey on March 4, 1851. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1855 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. In 1854, Davis lost to Harvey D. Scott of the opposition party.

In the elections of 1856 Davis was re-elected in the seventh district in Congress, where he replaced Scott again on March 4, 1857. Since he was confirmed in 1858 in his mandate, he could spend up to March 3, 1861, two further legislative periods in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he experienced early 1861, the withdrawal of the southern states from the Union and the associated escalation of events immediately before the outbreak of the Civil War. 1860 Davis waived on a new Congress candidacy. In the following years he worked in Montezuma commercially. He later moved to Terre Haute, where he worked in the dry goods trade. There he is on January 18, 1866 and passed away.