Thomas Treadwell Davis

Thomas Treadwell Davis ( born August 22, 1810 in Middlebury, Vermont, † May 2, 1872 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1863 and 1867 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Thomas Tredwell was his grandfather.

Career

Thomas Treadwell Davis was born about two years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Addison County. The family moved in 1817 after Oneida County ( New York) and settled in Clinton. There he attended the Clinton Academy and graduated in 1831 from Hamilton College. He moved in 1831 to Syracuse in Onondaga County. In the following years he studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1833, he began practicing in Syracuse. He also worked on the railways and coal mining.

Politically, he was a member at the time of the Unionist Party. In the congressional elections of 1862 for the 38th Congress he was on the 23rd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ambrose W. Clark on March 4, 1863. He then joined the Republican Party. In 1864 he was elected to the 39th Congress. Since he gave up for reelection in 1866, he retired after March 3 in 1867 from the Congress. His first term in office was overshadowed by the Civil War and his second of the postwar period.

After his conference time he took in Syracuse his work as a lawyer on. He died on 2 May 1872 in Washington, D.C. His body was cremated and the ashes deposited in the Oakwood Cemetery.