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Eminent Upholders in Congress of the War for the Union (detail), engraving, 1865, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
DAVIS, Henry Winter, (cousin of David Davis),
a Representative from Maryland; born in Annapolis, Md., August 16,
1817; was tutored privately; lived in Alexandria, Va. and Wilmington; returned
to Maryland in 1827 with his father, who settled in Anne Arundel County;
attended Wilmington College in 1826 and 1827; St. Johns College, Annapolis,
Md., and Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia; was graduated from Kenyon College,
Gambier, Ohio, in 1837; studied law at the University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Va.; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Alexandria, Va.; in 1850 moved to Baltimore, Md., where he continued the
practice of law and also engaged in literary pursuits; elected as the candidate
of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth through Thirty-sixth Congresses
(March 4, 1855-March 3, 1861); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1860 to
the Thirty-seventh Congress; elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the
Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); chairman, Committee on
Foreign Affairs (Thirty-eighth Congress); co-sponsor of the Wade-Davis bill of
1864; was not a candidate for renomination in 1864; died in Baltimore, Md., on
December 30, 1865; interment in Greenmount Cemetery.
BibliographyBelz, Herman. Henry Winter Davis and the Origins of
Congressional Reconstruction.
Maryland Historical Magazine 67 (Summer 1972): 129-43; Henig,
Gerald S.
Henry Winter Davis; Antebellum and Civil War Congressman From
Maryland. New York: Twayne, 1973.
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