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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJohn DAVIS
(1787-1854)
Senate Years of Service:
1835-1841; 1845-1853Party: Anti-Jacksonian;
WhigDAVIS, John, (father of
Horace Davis, great-great grandfather of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.), a
Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Northboro,
Mass., January 13, 1787; attended Leicester Academy, and graduated
from Yale College in 1812; studied law; admitted to the bar and
commenced practice in Worcester, Mass., in 1815; elected to the
Nineteenth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from
March 4, 1825, to January 14, 1834, when he resigned, having been
elected Governor; Governor of Massachusetts 1834-1835; elected as
an Anti-Jacksonian (later Whig) to the United States Senate and
served from March 4, 1835, to January 5, 1841, when he resigned;
chairman, Committee on Commerce (Twenty-fourth Congress); Governor
of Massachusetts 1841-1843; again elected in 1845 to the United
States Senate, as a Whig, to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Isaac C. Bates; reelected in 1847 and served from March 24,
1845, to March 3, 1853; declined to be a candidate for renomination
in 1852, and retired from public life; died in Worcester, Mass., on
April 19, 1854; interment in the Rural Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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