Richard D. Davis

Richard David Davis ( * 1799 in Stillwater, New York, † June 17, 1871 in Waterford, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1841 and 1845 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard David Davis was born shortly before the end of the 18th century in Stillwater. In 1818 he graduated from Yale College. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1821 and then began practicing in Poughkeepsie. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1840 he was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Johnston on March 4, 1841. Then he ran in 1842 in the eighth electoral district of New York for a congress seat. After a successful election, he entered on March 4, 1843, the successor of Jacob Houck Jr. and Robert McClellan, who had been together represent the district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since he gave up another candidacy in 1844, he retired after the March 3, 1845 out of the Congress. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Revolutionary Claims (28th Congress ).

Then withdrew from the political scene and went into retirement. He has worked in Waterford in agriculture, where he died on June 17, 1871. His body was buried at the Waterford Rural Cemetery.