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Davis, David, 1815-
Jurist; born in Cecil county, Md., March 9, 1815; graduated at Kenyon College, O., 1832; admitted to the bar of Illinois in 1835; elected to the State legislature in 1834; and appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1862.
He resigned this post to take his seat in the United States Senate on March 4, 1877, having been elected to succeed John A. Logan (q. v.). In 1872 he was nominated for President by the Labor Reform party, but declined to run after the regular Democratic and Republican nominations had been made.
He resigned in 1883 and retired to Bloomington, Ill., where he died June 26, 1886.
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