Richard D. Davis

Richard David Davis (born 1799 in Stillwater , New York , † June 17, 1871 in Waterford , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1841 and 1845 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Richard David Davis was born in Stillwater just before the end of the 18th century. In 1818 he graduated from Yale College . He studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1821 and then began practicing in Poughkeepsie . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the congressional election of 1840 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Charles Johnston on March 4, 1841 . He then ran in 1842 in the eighth constituency of New York for a seat in Congress. After a successful election, on March 4, 1843, he succeeded Jacob Houck junior and Robert McClellan , who had previously represented the district in the US House of Representatives. Since he on another candidacy in 1844 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1845 Congress of. As a congressman, he chaired the Committee on Revolutionary Claims ( 28th Congress ).

Then withdrew from the political scene and retired. He worked in agriculture in Waterford, where he died on June 17, 1871. His body was interred in the Waterford Rural Cemetery .

Web links

• Richard D. Davis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Richard D. Davis in the database of Find a Grave (English)