Davis
JOHN WILLIAM, elected president of the American Bar Association, 1922.
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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 pro tem, in 1831, and retired in 1883. He died in Bloomington, Ill., June 26, 1886.
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Davis (II)
CHARLES HENRY, an American rear-admiral, born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1845. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1864 and became an ensign in 1866. He rose through the grades, becoming commander in 1885; captain in 1898; and rear-admiral in 1904. He served on various stations and duties and was connected with several expeditions for the determination of the difference of longitude by means of submarine telegraph cables. In 1897-1898 he was superintendent of the Naval Observatory. He served during the Spanish-American War as commander of the auxiliary cruiser, "Dixie." In 1904-1905 he served as a member of the International Commission of Inquiry on the North Sea incident. He was retired by the operation of law on Aug. 28, 1907. He was the author of several books on the determination of longitude. He wrote "Life of Rear-Admiral Davis" (1899).
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Davis (III)
CUSHMAN KELLOGG, an American legislator; born in Henderson, N. Y., June 16, 1838. He was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1857; was admitted to the bar, but enlisted in the Union army in 1861. He began the practice of law in St. Paul in 1865; was chosen to the Minnesota Legislature in 1867; became United States district attorney in 1868; governor in 1874; and United States Senator in 1887, 1893 and 1899. He was a Republican, and a member of the Peace Commission, which negotiated the treaty between Spain and the United States in 1898. He was for several years chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and reported the resolution which practically declared war against Spain. He died at St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 27, 1900.
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Davis (IX)
RICHARD HARDING, an American novelist and contributor to periodical literature; born in Philadelphia, April 18, 1864. He graduated at Lehigh University, and entered journalism in Philadelphia. His first purely literary success was the story of "Gallegher," based upon his newspaper experiences, and published with other stories in a volume (1891). Among his works are: "Stories for Boys" (1891); "Van Bibber and Others" (1892); "The Rulers of the Mediterranean" (1894); "The Princess Aline" (1895); "About Paris" (1895); "Three Gringoes in Venezuela and Central America" (1896); "Soldiers of Fortune" (1897); "The Lost Road" (1913), etc. In 1898 he was a war correspondent in Cuba and in 1900 he acted in the same capacity in South Africa and in the World War. He wrote a number of successful plays, among them "The Galloper," ," "The Yankee Tourist," and "Vera, the Medium." He served as war correspondent during the first years of the World War. He died in 1916.
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Davis (JAMES J an American public)
JAMES J., an American public official, born in Pittsburgh, in 1876. He attended public school, but when still a youth, went to Elwood, Ind., where he worked in a tin-plate mill. Two years later he was elected city clerk of Elwood, od, and later became county recorder. After some time spent in gold mining in the West, he undertook to reorganization of the Loyal Order of Moose. He was so successful in this endeavor that he was elected supreme dictator and reorganizer. Through his efforts about 1,500,000 men were brought into the organization. He engaged also in the manufacture of jewelry and other lines of business, and was actively identified with union labor. He founded the Orphan's Home of Moose at Mooseheart, Ill. He engaged in the banking business in Pittsburgh. Mr. Davis was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Harding and assumed office on March 4, 1921.
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Davis (V)
JOHN WILLIAM, an American lawyer and public official, born in Clarksburg, W. Va., in 1873. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1892 and afterward took a course in law at that institution. He was admitted to the bar in 1895 and in the following year served as assistant professor of law in Washington and Lee University. From 1897 he was engaged in the practice of law as a member of the law firm of Davis & Davis at Clarksburg, W. Va. He was a member of the State House of Delegates in 1899 and served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1904. In 1911 he was elected to the 62d Congress and was reelected on the expiration of his term to the 63d Congress. He resigned in 1913 to accept the post of solicitor-general of the United States. He served until November, 1918, when he was appointed ambassador to Great Britain by President Wilson. He was a member of the American delegation for conferring with the Germans on the treatment and exchange of prisoners of war, in 1918. Mr. Davis was prominently mentioned as a candidate of the Democratic nomination for president in 1920.
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Davis (VI)
KATHERINE BEMENT, an American public official. She was born in Buffalo in 1860, and graduated from Vassar College in 1892 and later received the degree of Ph.D., from the University of Chicago. From 1892-1897 she was in Philadelphia in charge of the college settlement work. In 1901 she became superintendent of the Bedford Reformatory for girls, a position which she retained for 12 years. During her work as a penologist she applied scientific laboratory work in endeavoring to arrive at a right method in reforming delinquent girls and women. In 1914 Mayor Mayor Mit Mitchel appointed her Commissioner of Correction, she being the first woman commissioner ever appointed in New York City. She resigned in 1915 and was appointed chairman of the Parole Board of New York City, 1918.
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