Robert H. M. Davidson

Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson (* September 23, 1832 in Quincy, Gadsden County, Florida; † January 18, 1908 ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1891 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Davidson attended the common schools and the Quincy Academy. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and its made ​​in 1853 admitted to the bar he began in Quincy to work in his new profession. Politically, Davidson was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1856-1859 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Florida; after which he belonged from 1860 to 1862 to the State Senate. During the Civil War Davidson served in the Army of the Confederacy, in which it brought to lieutenant colonel.

1865 Davidson was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Florida. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was the first electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jesse Johnson Finley on March 4, 1877. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1891 seven legislative sessions. Between 1883 and 1889, Davidson was chairman of the railway and Kanalauschusses. In 1890, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

From 1897 to 1898 he was railroad commissioner of the state of Florida. Otherwise he worked until his death on January 18, 1908 in Quincy as a lawyer.