John Morgan Davis

John Morgan Davis (born August 9, 1906 in Shenandoah , Pennsylvania , †  March 8, 1984 ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1959 and 1963 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Pennsylvania; he later became a federal judge in the federal district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

Career

John Davis studied at the University of Pennsylvania until 1929 . After a subsequent law degree at the law school of this university and his admission as a lawyer in 1932, he began to work in this profession, which he practiced until 1952. He was then an appellate judge at the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas until 1958 . Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . In July 1960 he took part as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles , at which John F. Kennedy was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In 1958, Davis was elected lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania alongside David Leo Lawrence . He held this office between 1959 and 1963. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate . In 1964, US President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him to succeed Thomas C. Egan as a judge at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania . He held this office until his death on March 8, 1984.

Web links

• John Morgan Davis in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
• John Morgan Davis at The Political Graveyard
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