Cherokee County AlArchives Biographies.....Davenport, James Sanford September 21, 1864 - January 3, 1940
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James Sanford Davenport was born on a farm near Gaylesville, Cherokee County, 
Ala., September 21, 1864; moved with his parents to Conway, Faulkner County, 
Ark., in 1880; attended the common schools, Vilona (Ark.) High School, and 
Greenbrier (Ark.) Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar of Faulkner 
County February 14, 1890, and commenced practice in Conway; in October of that 
year moved to Muskogee, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), and in 1893 to Vinita, 
where he engaged in the practice of law; member of the Territorial council 1897-
1901, serving as speaker the last two years of his term; one of the attorneys 
for the Cherokee Nation 1901-1907; mayor of Vinita in 1903 and 1904; elected as 
a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress on September 17, 1907, and served from 
November 16, 1907, when Oklahoma was admitted as a State into the Union, until 
March 3, 1909; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first 
Congress; elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses 
(March 4, 1911-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to 
the Sixty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Vinita; was elected 
judge of the criminal court of appeals of Oklahoma in November 1926; reelected 
in 1932 and served until his death in Oklahoma City, Okla., January 3, 1940; 
interment in Fairview Cemetery, Vinita, Okla. 


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