Biography of 	Davey, John C. Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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John. C. Davey has been a member of the State Senate since 1912.  He is a lawyer, and 
has been active in the practice of law and politics in his native city for a quarter 
of a century.

He was born in New Orleans, in 1879, son of John C. and Anna E. (McCormack) Davey, 
also natives of New Orleans.  His grandfather, Martin McCormack, came to New Orleans 
from Ireland.  The paternal grandfather, John C. Davey, a native of Ireland, located 
in New Orleans about 1840, and founded and for many years was head of the John C. 
Davey Harness & Saddlery Company.  He died in 1885.  John C. Davey, father of Senator 
Davey, died in 1909.  He was a brother of Robert C. Davey, who died in December, 1908, 
after a long and distinguished career as a public leader in New Orleans and as a member 
of Congress.  He was elected a member of the State Senate in 1879, in 1884 and in 1892, 
and in 1880 and 1884 was elected judge of the First Recorder's Court of New Orleans.  
He was gifted with remarkable sound sense, a broad experience with men and affairs, and
performed his judicial duties with great skill.  In 1888 he was unsuccessful as candidate
for mayor.  In 1892 he was elected to represent the Second Congressional District of 
Louisiana in Congress, but declined to become a candidate for reelection.  In 1896 he 
was again elected, taking his seat in the Fifty-fifth Congress and by reelection served 
continuously until his death twelve years later.  At that the he was dean of the Louisiana 
delegation in Congress.

Senator John C. Davey was educated in public Schools, attending the Boys' High School 
and Studied law in Tulane University, where he was graduated LL. B. in 1900.  Since 
that year he has conducted a successful general practice, having his law offices in the 
Canal-Commercial Bank Building.  He is a member of the Louisiana Bar and American Bar 
Associations, is a Catholic, and from early manhood has been affiliated with the Old 
regular branch of the democratic party.

he is now senior state senator from the Parish of Orleans.  He was elected to 
the Senate, representing the first senatorial district, in 1912, and was reelected 
in 1916, 1920 and 1924.  In the State Senate he is leader of the Orleans delegation; 
is chairman of the Committee on Judiciary Section "A" and of the joint judicial 
Committee, and for a number of years has been a member of the senate finance 
committee and of the city affairs committee, which handles the legislative program 
affecting New Orleans.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 353, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by 
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.