| 词条 | John Davis (Kansas politician) |
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| honorific-prefix = | name = John Davis | honorific-suffix = | image = John_davis_kansas.jpg | state = Kansas | district = 5th congressional | term_start = March 4, 1891 | term_end = March 3, 1895 | preceded = John Alexander Anderson | succeeded = William A. Calderhead | birth_date = {{Birth date|1826|8|9}} | birth_place = Springfield, Illinois | death_date = {{Death date and age|1901|8|1|1826|8|9}} | death_place = Topeka, Kansas | restingplace = Topeka Cemetery | restingplacecoordinates = | birthname = | party = Populist Party | otherparty = Greenback Party | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = Illinois College | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} John Davis (August 9, 1826 – August 1, 1901) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas. Early lifeBorn near Springfield, Illinois, Davis moved with his parents to Macon County in 1830. He attended the country schools, Springfield Academy, and Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois. He engaged in agricultural and horticultural pursuits near Decatur, Illinois. CareerDavis moved to Kansas in 1872 and located on a farm near Junction City. He was elected president of the first distinctive farmers' convention held in Kansas in 1873, out of which grew the Farmers' Cooperative Association, of which he was the first president. He later served as president of the Grange convention in 1874 and became proprietor and editor of the Junction City Tribune in 1875. Davis also served as Secretary of the Central Kansas Horticultural Society for many years. PoliticsDavis was an anti-slave Republican and believed in the principle of government supported agricultural education. He was also "a neighbor and intimate acquaintance of Abraham Lincoln"[1] Davis was an unsuccessful candidate of the Greenback Party for election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress and in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress. Davis was elected as a Populist to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895). In congress, he made speeches on finance, tariff reform, transportation, the income tax, and was an advocate of women's suffrage.[2] Davis was unsuccessful in his bid for re-election in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress. Later lifeAfter his political career Davis devoted his time to literary work until his death at the residence of his daughter in Topeka, Kansas, August 1, 1901.[3] He was interred in Topeka Cemetery. References{{CongBio|D000115}}Notes1. ^The Kansas Commoner, Wichita, Kansas, September 11, 1890 {{Bioguide}}{{s-start}}{{s-par|us-hs}}{{USRepSuccessionBox |2. ^Johnson, Rossiter. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Volume III. 1904 3. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o8X5krq3fP8C&pg=PA495#v=onepage&q&f=false | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=495}} state=Kansas | district=5 | before=John A. Anderson | after=William A. Calderhead | years=1891 – 1895}}{{s-end}}{{KansasUSRepresentatives}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, John}} 12 : 1826 births|1901 deaths|Politicians from Springfield, Illinois|Kansas Republicans|Kansas Greenbacks|People's Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas|Writers from Springfield, Illinois|Writers from Kansas|Illinois College alumni|People from Macon County, Illinois|People from Junction City, Kansas|19th-century American politicians |
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