Alachua County FlArchives Biographies.....Davis, Robert  W. March 15, 1849 - 
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Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. III   pg. 32  1923
Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present

DAVIS, ROBERT W., editor of the Gainesville Sun, has a distinguished record as 
a boy soldier of the Confederacy, a lawyer, former congressman and at all 
times a leader in public affairs.
	He was born in Lee County, Georgia, March 15, 1849.  His father, Rev. 
JESSE M. DAVIS, was for over fifty years a minister of the Baptist Church in 
Georgia.  ROBERT W. DAVIS attended private schools, and at the age of 14 
enlisted, in 1863, in the Fifth Georgia Regiment, and was in service until he 
surrendered with the Army of Gen. JOSEPH JOHNSTON on April 26, 1865.  For 
several years after the war he worked on a Georgia farm, read law in the 
meantime, and at the age of twenty, in 1869, was admitted to the bar.  He 
practiced in Blakely, Georgia, and in 1879, came to Florida and located at 
Green Cove Springs.  From that time he has exercised a dominant influence in 
the politics and public affairs of the state.  He was elected to the Florida 
Legislature in 1884, he was speaker of the House in 1885, served as general 
attorney for the Florida Southern Railroad Company from 1885 to 1897, with 
headquarters in Palatka, and at the same time engaged in private practice.  In 
1888 he was candidate for governor, and 1896, was elected to Congress to 
represent the Second Florida District.  He was reelected, and represented that 
district in Washington from 1897 to 1905.  For many years Mr. DAVIS has lived 
in Gainesville, and is still engaged in private practice and performs the 
duties pertaining to newspaper work.  He has been a member of the council and 
mayor of the City of Gainesville, and was for eight years registrar of United 
States Land office for Florida.


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