David Davis (senator)
| David Davis | |
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| President pro tempore of the United States Senate | |
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In office October 13, 1881 – March 3, 1883 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. |
| Succeeded by | George F. Edmunds |
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United States Senator from Illinois |
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In office March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1883 |
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| Preceded by | John Logan |
| Succeeded by | Shelby Cullom |
| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
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In office October 17, 1862 – March 4, 1877 |
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| Appointed by | Abraham Lincoln |
| Preceded by | John Campbell |
| Succeeded by | John Harlan |
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March 9, 1815 Cecil County, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | June 26, 1886 (aged 71) Bloomington, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party |
Whig (Before 1854) Republican (1854–1870) Liberal Republican (1870–1872) Independent (1872–1886) |
| Spouse(s) | Sarah Woodruff Walker (1838–1879) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education |
Kenyon College (BA) Yale University (LLB) |
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David Davis (March 9, 1815 – June 26, 1886) was a United States Senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention, along with Ward Hill Lamon, one of Lincoln's former law partners who served as the President's primary bodyguard during the American Civil War. Davis and Lamon, along with another Lincoln associate, Leonard Swett, helped engineer Lincoln's nomination.
Educated at Kenyon College and Yale University, Davis settled in Bloomington, Illinois in the 1830s, where he practiced law. He served in the Illinois legislature and as a delegate to the state constitutional convention before becoming a state Judge in 1848. Lincoln practiced law in his court. After Lincoln won the presidency, Davis was appointed to the United States Supreme Court, where he served until being elected to the Senate in 1877. Known for his independence, he was elected President pro tempore of the United States Senate, placing him in the line of presidential succession, and was the last such to be a member neither of the Democratic nor Republican parties.
He was born to a wealthy family in Cecil County, Maryland, where he attended public school. After graduating from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, in 1832, he went on to study law in Massachusetts and at Yale University. Upon his graduation from Yale in 1835, Davis moved to Bloomington, Illinois, to practice law. He married Sarah Woodruff Walker of Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1838. Two of their children, George and Sallie, survived to adulthood. Davis also served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1845 and a delegate to the Illinois constitutional convention in McLean County, 1847. From 1848 to 1862, Davis presided over the court of the Illinois Eighth Circuit, the same circuit where attorney Abraham Lincoln was practicing.
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