Timothy Davis (Massachusetts)

Timothy Davis ( born April 12, 1821 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, † October 23, 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Timothy Davis attended the common schools and worked for two years in the printing trade. He then worked in Boston in the trade. Politically, he joined in the 1850s, the American Party. In the congressional elections of 1854 Davis was the sixth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Wentworth Upham on March 4, 1855. After a re-election as a candidate of the Republican Party, he was now joined, he was able to complete two terms in Congress, 1859 to March 3. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War.

In May 1860 was Timothy Davis delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. Since 1861 he worked for the customs authority at the port of Boston. At that time he was also engaged in the processing of claims to the government. From 1870 to 1871 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He died on October 23, 1888 in Boston.