John J. Davis (congressman)
John James Davis ( born May 5, 1835 in Clarksburg, Virginia, † March 19, 1916 ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1875 he represented the first electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
John Davis was born in 1835 in Clarksburg, which at that time was still part of Virginia, and in 1863 came to the newly created West Virginia. He attended the Northwestern Virginia Academy in Clarksburg and then studied at the Lexington Law School, from which the present-day Washington and Lee University emerged, Jura. After his made in 1856 admitted to the bar he began in his hometown of Clarksburg to work in his new profession. In 1861 he was elected to the House of Representatives of Virginia.
Davis was a supporter of the Union and thus to prevent the escape of Virginia in the United States. After just this exit was decided by the majority of delegates at a convention, the pro-Union citizens of the western provinces were formed to found a new state. Davis was a member of the first meeting of this movement, which took place on 22 April 1861. In June 1861 he was a delegate to another conference in Wheeling, pursued the same goal. In 1863, then the union faithful state of West Virginia was founded.
Davis became a member of the Democratic Party, whose Democratic National Convention he attended in 1868, 1876 and 1892. From 1869 to 1870 he was a member of the House of Representatives from West Virginia. In 1870, he was elected in the first district of the state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1871, the successor of the Republican Isaac H. Duval. After a re-election in 1872 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1875 two legislative sessions. In 1874 he abandoned a bid again.
After his time in Congress, Davis worked as a lawyer again. In 1884 he was in the presidential election one of the electors of Grover Cleveland. John Davis died on 19 March 1916 in his hometown of Clarksburg.