Samuel Davis

Samuel Davis ( * 1774 in Bath, Massachusetts, † April 20, 1831 ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in present-day Maine Samuel Davis was engaged in trade and later acquired some ships, with which he went into the Africa and West Indies trade. Politically, he was a member of the late 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party. In 1803 and 1808-1812 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Between 1813 and 1818 he was a board member ( Overseer ) of Bowdoin College. He got one in the banking industry and was in 1813 president of the Lincoln Bank in Bath.

In the congressional elections of 1812, Davis was in the 16th electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Peleg Tallman on March 4, 1813. Until March 3, 1815, he was able to complete a term in Congress. This was marked by the events of the British -American War. In the years 1815 and 1816 was Samuel Davis again deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Otherwise, he was still in Africa and West Indies trading. He died on 20 April 1831 in his birthplace of Bath.