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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeEwin Lamar DAVIS
(1876-1949)
DAVIS, Ewin Lamar, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Bedford County, Tenn.,
February 5, 1876; attended the public schools, Webb School, Bell
Buckle, Tenn., Woolwine School, Tullahoma, Tenn., and Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tenn., 1895-1897; was graduated from
Columbian (now George Washington) University Law School,
Washington, D.C., in 1899; was admitted to the bar the same year
and commenced practice in Tullahoma, Tenn.; delegate to all
Democratic State conventions 1900-1910; judge of the seventh
judicial circuit of Tennessee 1910-1918; chairman of the district
exemption board for the middle district of Tennessee in 1917 and
1918; director of the Traders National Bank of Tullahoma 1903-1940;
trustee of Tennessee College for Women 1906-1939; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); chairman, Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries (Seventy-second Congress); was an unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1932; member of the Federal Trade
Commission from May 23, 1933, until his death, serving as chairman
in 1935, 1940, and 1945; member of the American National Committee,
Third World Power Conference, in 1936; died in Washington, D.C., on
October 23, 1949; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Tullahoma,
Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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