Robert Wyche Davis

Robert Wyche Davis ( * March 15, 1849 in Albany, Georgia, † September 15, 1929 in Gainesville, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1905 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Davis attended the public schools of his home. Between 1863 and 1865 he participated as a soldier in the Confederate army in part in the Civil War. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1869 admitted to the bar he began in Blakely to work in his new profession. In 1879, Davis moved his residence and his law practice to Green Cove Springs, Florida. Later he practiced in Gainesville and Palatka. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party.

In the years 1884 and 1885, Davis sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Florida, where he was president of the House in 1885. In the congressional elections of 1896 he was in the second electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Merian Cooper on March 4, 1897. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1905 four legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. At that time, the Philippines and Hawaii came under American administration.

1904 Davis renounced to another Congress candidate. In the following years he practiced in Palatka and Tampa as a lawyer. In 1914, he moved to Gainesville, where he worked until 1922 for the General Land Office. Moreover, he then published the newspaper " Gainesville Sun". In the years 1924 and 1925 Robert Davis served as mayor of Gainesville; then he again worked as a lawyer. He died on September 15, 1929 in Gainesville.

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