Thomas Beall Davis

Thomas Beall Davis ( born April 25, 1828 in Baltimore, Maryland, † November 26, 1911 in Keyser, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1905 and 1907 he represented the second electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Davis attended the public schools in Howard County in Maryland. In 1854 he moved to Piedmont, which at that time was still part of Virginia and founded at the 1863 West Virginia State later dropped. In this city, Davis worked for the railroad Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. A few years later he moved to Keyser. There he was in trade, timber business, mining, banking, and the railway industry operates.

Davis was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1876 and 1907 he was on the board of his party in West Virginia. From 1898 to 1900 he sat in the House of Representatives from West Virginia. Following the resignation of Congressman Alston G. Dayton Davis was selected in the second district of West Virginia as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. This mandate, he took up on June 6, 1905. In Congress, he ended until 3 March 1907, the legislature Unopened his predecessor. In the regular congressional elections of 1906 he renounced a bid again.

After the end of his time in Congress, Davis devoted again to his private business, which includes not only the coal industry now belonged to agriculture. He died on 26 November 1911 in Keyser and was buried in Elkins (West Virginia). His elder brother Henry was 1871-1883 U.S. Senator for West Virginia and in the presidential election in 1904 Democratic candidate for the office of Vice-President.