Timothy Davis (Iowa)

Timothy Davis ( born March 29, 1794 in Newark, New Jersey, † April 27, 1872 in Elkader, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1859 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Timothy Davis attended the public schools of his home. In 1816 he moved to Kentucky. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in his new profession. He later moved to Missouri, where he also practiced as a lawyer. In 1837 he settled in Dubuque in the Wisconsin Territory.

After his new home was initially become part of the Iowa Territory, and then from 1846 part of the new state of Iowa, Davis ran in 1848 as the candidate of the Know-Nothing Party unsuccessfully for Congress. In the 1850s he became a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In 1856 he was in the second constituency of Iowa against the former congressman Shepherd Leffler in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Thorington on March 4, 1857. Davis and Samuel Ryan Curtis, who had been elected at the same time in the first district in the U.S. House of Representatives, were the first two Republicans who represented the state of Iowa there. Since he resigned in 1858 to further candidacy, Davis was able to complete up to March 3, 1859, only one term in Congress, which was overshadowed by the events leading up to the Civil War.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Timothy Davis again worked as a lawyer in Dubuque. He was also involved in some other stores. He died on April 27, 1872 in Elkader and was also buried there.

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