Lawyer/Diplomat/Railroad Officer
Centurion, 1855–1895
Born 29 December 1822 in Worcester, Massachusetts
Died 27 December 1907 in Washington, District of Columbia
Buried Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Jamaica, New York
Proposed by J. Howard Wainwright
Elected 7 April 1855 at age thirty-two
Archivist’s Note: He ostensibly resigned sometime between 1857 and 1860 and was reinstated in June 1864 with a new set of proposers, Jonathan Sturges and Abraham M. Cozzens. Brother of Andrew McFarland Davis.