Samuel B. Avis

Samuel Brashear Avis ( born February 19, 1872 in Harrisonburg, Virginia; † June 8, 1924 in Charleston, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the third electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Avis attended the public schools of his home and then the Staunton Military Academy in Staunton ( Virginia). After studying law at Washington and Lee University in Lexington (Virginia ) and its made ​​in 1893 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession in Charleston (West Virginia). During the Spanish- American War, he was 1898-1899 captain in an infantry unit from West Virginia. Between January 1, 1900 and December 31, 1912 Avis served as district attorney in Kanawha County. In 1904, he was also responsible for a few months, Deputy Attorney General for the southern part of West Virginia.

Avis was a member of the Republican Party and was built in 1912 as its candidate in the third district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1913 the successor to the Democrats Adam Brown Littlepage, whom he had beaten in the election. But since he lost against Littlepage already at the next election in 1914, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915. At this time the 17th Amendment was ratified, who introduced the direct election of U.S. senators.

After the end of his time in Congress Avis again worked as a lawyer. He died on 8 June 1924 in Charleston by a lightning strike.

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