Robert William Davis

Robert William Davis ( born July 31, 1932 in Marquette, Michigan, † October 16, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1979 and 1993 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, Robert Davis attended until 1950, the La Salle High School and then studied until 1952 at Northern Michigan University and until 1954 at Wayne State University. In the following years he worked as a director of the Davis Funeral Home funeral home in St. Ignace. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. From 1964 to 1966 he was councilor in St. Ignace; 1966 to 1970 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan. Between 1970 and 1978, Davis was a member of the State Senate. Where he led the Republican faction. From 1966 to 1978 he was a delegate to the regional party conferences in Michigan.

In the congressional elections of 1978, Davis was in the eleventh electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Philip Ruppe on January 3, 1979. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1993 seven legislative sessions. There, the 27th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted in 1992. That same year, Davis was involved in a banking scandal with the Congress Bank, he wrote out by many bad checks. That was then but not illegal because Congress tolerated this practice.

1992 Davis renounced to another candidacy. Subsequently he worked as a lobbyist for the company K & L Gates. He supported the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush and was a friend of Dick Cheney. Robert Davis died on October 16, 2009 in a hospice in Arlington from heart and kidney failure.

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