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Davis (DAVID an American jurist born)

DAVID, an American jurist; born in Cecil co., Md., March 9, 1815.

He was graduated at Kenyon College in 1832, and settled in Illinois as a lawyer in 1835. He was elected to the Legislature in 1844 and served as a State Circuit Judge from 1848 to 1862. In the latter year he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He voted in favor of the Legal Tender act. He resigned in 1877 to enter the United States Senate, of which he became president DAVIS pro tem, in 1831, and retired in 1883. a youth, went to Elwood, Ind., where he He attended public school, but when still public official, born in Pittsburgh, in 1876.