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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MinnesotaCushman Kellogg DAVIS
(1838-1900)
Senate Years of Service:
1887-1900Party: RepublicanDAVIS, Cushman Kellogg, a
Senator from Minnesota; born in Henderson, Jefferson County, N.Y.,
June 16, 1838; moved with his parents to Waukesha, Wis.; attended
the public schools, Carroll College in Waukesha; graduated from the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1857; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Waukesha; during the
Civil War served as first lieutenant in the Twenty-eighth Regiment,
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, in 1861 and 1862; assistant adjutant
general 1862-1864; moved to St. Paul, Minn., in 1865; member, State
house of representatives 1867; United States district attorney
1868-1873; Governor of Minnesota 1874-1875; elected as a Republican
to the United States Senate in 1886; reelected in 1892 and again in
1898, and served from March 4, 1887, until his death on November
27, 1900; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Fiftieth through
Fifty-second Congresses), Committee on Territories (Fifty-fourth
Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Fifty-fifth and
Fifty-sixth Congresses); member of the commission which met in
Paris, France, in September 1898 to arrange terms of peace after
the war between the United States and Spain; died in St. Paul,
Minn.; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Coy, Richard.
“Cushman K. Davis and American Foreign Policy,
1887-1900.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota,
1965; Kreuter, Kent. “The Presidency or Nothing: Cushman K.
Davis and the Campaign of 1896.” Minnesota History 41
(Fall 1969): 301-16.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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