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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasDAVIS, Jeff
(1862—1913)
Senate Years of Service:
1907-1913
Party:
Democrat
DAVIS, Jeff, a Senator from Arkansas; born near Richmond, Little River County, Ark., May 6, 1862; attended school in Russellville, Ark., and graduated from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1884; studied law; admitted to the bar in Pope County, Ark., and commenced practice in Russellville, Ark.; prosecuting attorney of the fifth judicial district 1892-1896; attorney general of the State 1898-1900; Governor of Arkansas 1901-1906; continued the practice of law at Little Rock, Ark., in 1906; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1907, until his death in Little Rock, Ark., January 3, 1913; chairman, Committee on the Mississippi and its Tributaries (Sixty-second Congress); interment in Mount Holly Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
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. 1984, Reprint. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988; Niswonger, Richard L. “A Study in Southern Demagoguery: Jeff Davis of Arkansas.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly
39 (Summer 1980): 114-24.
Arsenault, Raymond. The Wild Ass of the Ozarks: Jeff Davis and the Social Bases of Southern Politics
. 1984. Reprint. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988.
Booth, Billy Travis. “An Analysis of the Myths in Selected Speeches of Jeff Davis of Arkansas, 1899-1911.” Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State University, 1977.
Dunaway, L.S., ed. Jeff Davis, Governor and United States Senator: His Life and Speeches, with Personal Reminiscences
. Little Rock: Democrat Print Lithograph Co., 1913.
Jacobson, Charles. The Life Story of Jeff Davis, the Stormy Petrel of Arkansas Politics
. Little Rock: Parke-Harper Publishing Co., 1925.
Ledbetter, Cal, Jr. “Jeff Davis and the Politics of Combat.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly
33 (Spring 1974): 16-37.
Mulhollan, Paige E. “The Issues of the Davis-Berry Senatorial Campaign in 1906.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly
20 (Summer 1961): 118-25.
Niswonger, Richard L. “A Study in Southern Demagoguery: Jeff Davis of Arkansas.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly
39 (Summer 1980): 114-24.
Shelby, Annette. “Jeff Davis of Arkansas: ‘Professional Man of the People’.” In The Oratory of Southern Demagogues
, edited by Cal M. Logue and Howard Dorgan, pp. 13-44. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
U.S. Congress. Jeff Davis (Late a Senator from Arkansas): Memorial Addresses
. 62d Cong., 3d sess., 1912-1913. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913.
Williams, Nancy A., ed. Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives
. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000: 78-79.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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