Davis Elkins

Davis Elkins

Davis Elkins (born January 24, 1876 in Washington, DC , †  January 5, 1959 in Richmond , Virginia ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of West Virginia in the US Senate .

Elkins was the son of Stephen Benton Elkins , US Secretary of War from 1891 to 1893. He attended school in Lawrenceville ( New Jersey ) and the Phillips Academy in Andover ( Massachusetts ) before it at Harvard University enrolled. During the Spanish-American War he fought as a private in an infantry volunteer regiment ; In 1898 he rose to the rank of adjutant general .

As an industrialist, Elkins was active in many fields of business: the railroad, banking and mining. He became politically active when his father, a US Senator since 1895, died on January 4, 1911, and five days later he was named his successor in Congress . His tenure there ended again on January 31 of the same year, when Clarence Wayland Watson , who won the by-election, took over his seat.

In the First World War Elkins served in the US Army and was used from 1917 to 1918 in Europe. Upon his return, he applied for a seat in the Senate and was successful, after which he was a member of the Parliamentary Chamber from March 4, 1919 to March 3, 1925. During this time he was chairman of the Ministry of Commerce's Expenditure Control Committee . He then retired from politics and ran his own railroad company, the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Company , from 1936 to 1956 .

Web links

• Davis Elkins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Davis Elkins in the database of Find a Grave (English)