Thomas Beall Davis

Thomas Beall Davis (born April 25, 1828 in Baltimore , Maryland , † November 26, 1911 in Keyser , West Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1905 and 1907 he represented the second constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Davis attended public schools in Howard County , Maryland. In 1854 he moved to Piedmont , which was then still part of Virginia and later became part of the state of West Virginia, which was founded in 1863. In this city Davis worked for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad . A few years later he moved to Keyser. There he worked in commerce, the timber business, mining, banking and the railroad industry.

Davis was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1876 and 1907 he was a member of his party's executive committee in West Virginia. He served in the West Virginia House of Representatives from 1898 to 1900 . After the resignation of Congressman Alston G. Dayton , Davis was elected in the second district of West Virginia as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . He took up this mandate on June 6, 1905. In Congress he ended the legislative term of his predecessor that had begun on March 3, 1907. In the regular congressional elections of 1906, he refrained from running again.

After his time in Congress was over, Davis returned to his private business, which in addition to coal mining now also included agriculture. He died in Keyser on November 26, 1911 and was buried in Elkins, West Virginia. His older brother Henry was a US Senator for West Virginia from 1871 to 1883 and a Democratic candidate for vice president in the 1904 presidential election .

Web links

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

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