Leon County FlArchives Biographies.....Davis, Fred H. May 18, 1894 - 
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Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. II   pg. 7  1923
Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present

DAVIS, Hon. FRED HENRY, whose standing as a lawyer is well known to the 
Florida bar, has been engaged in a successful practice at Tallahassee for 
nearly ten years.  He is the present representative of Leon County in the 
legislature.	
	Mr. DAVIS was born in Greenville, South Carolina, May 18, 1894, and 
has lived in Florida since early infancy.  He is the son of FRED HENRY and 
ANNIE E. (PEARSON) DAVIS.  His father was born at Wadesboro, North Carolina, 
and his mother at Greenville, South Carolina.  She died in 1918.  FRED HENRY 
DAVIS, Sr., who died December 5, 1916, was a typographical machinist by trade, 
and from 1894 to 1907 was employed on the Florida Times-Union at 
Jacksonville.  In 1907 he to removed Tallahassee, and was in the service of Col. 
T.J.APPLEYARD, state printer.  He served as president of the Tallahassee 
Typographical Union from its organization until his death.  He was a democrat 
and a Methodist.
	FRED HENRY DAVIS attended the public schools at Jacksonville and 
Tallahassee, and following a course of study of the law he was admitted to the 
bar, November 4, 1914.  Since then he has been actively engaged in practice at 
Tallahassee, and was associated with HON. JOHN L NEELY until the latter's 
appointment as United States district attorney.  He handles a general 
practice, and in association with Sen. W.C. HODGES, well-known criminal lawyer 
of West Florida, has been connected here with some of the important criminal 
cases.
	Both in and out of his profession he has rendered some important 
public service.  He was county prosecuting attorney of Leon County in 1919 – 
20, and from 1917 to 1920 was non-resident county prosecuting attorney of 
Wakulla County.  During the World war he served for time as a special 
assistant United States attorney, until he resigned to join the Officers 
Training Camp at Camp Hancock, Georgia, where he was commissioned a second 
lieutenant of infantry.  He received his honorable discharge December 12, 
1918.  Mr. Davis represented Leon County in the Legislature and the session of 
1921, and was reelected in 1922.  He was author of the Davis Bad Check Law, 
and has proved one of the valuable working members of the Legislature.  He is 
a leader in democratic politics, is a member of the American Legion, the 
National Geographic Society, the Lake Bradford Country Club, and his hobby is 
Masonry.  He is master of Jackson Lodge, F. and A. M., is a Royal Arch Mason 
and has served as noble grand of Leon Lodge No. 5, Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows.
	At Tallahassee, February 3, 1921, Mr. Davis married FRANCES CHAMBERS, 
daughter of BENJAMIN R. and GEORGIA CHAMBERS.  Her parents live on their 
plantation near Tallahassee.  Mr. DAVIS is a Methodist, and takes an active 
part in the Bible Class and Sunday school work.
   

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