Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Davidson, James H. 
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Source: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson
Author: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897

SIXTH DISTRICT. Waushara, Marquette, Green Lake, Fond du Lac,
Winnebago, Calumet and Manitowoc counties. Population in 1895 ---
205,106.

JAMES H. DAVIDSON (Rep.) was born June 18, 1858, in Colchester,
Delaware county, New York; received a common school education in the
public schools and at Walton Academy, Walton, New York; was a teacher
in the public schools of Delaware and Sullivan counties, New York, for
several years, and for one year was engaged at the same occupation at
Princeton, Green Lake county, Wisconsin; began the study of law at
Walton, New York, in the office of Fancher & Sewell, and graduated
from the Albany Law School as president of the class in 1884.
Subsequently removed to Green Lake county, Wisconsin, and commenced
the practice of law in that county in 1887; was elected district
attorney of Green Lake county in 1888, and in 1890 was chosen chairman
of the republican congressional committee for the sixth district of
Wisconsin, and continued in that position until he was nominated for
congress on the 20th of August 1896.  On January 1, 1892, he removed
to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and became a member of the law firm of
Thompson, Harshaw & Davidson, which partnership continued for three
years, when he withdrew and continued the practice alone.  In May,
1895, he was appointed city attorney of that city for a term of two
years; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a republican,
receiving 26,649 votes against 18,944 for William P. Gruenewald,
democrat, and 626 for James S Thompson, prohibitionist.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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