Biographical Sketches:  James S. Davidson


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

page 723.

REPRESENTATIVES.  SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

Waushara, Marquette, Green Lake, Fond du Lac, Winnebago, Calumet and
Manitowoc counties. Population in 1900 - 207,431.

JAMES H. DAVIDSON (Rep.), was born June 18, 1858, In Colchester, Dela-
ware county, N. Y.; received a common school education in the public
schools and at Walton Academy, Walton, N. Y.; was a teacher in the
public schools of Delaware and Sullivan counties, N. Y., for several
years, and for one year was engaged in the same occupation at
Princeton, Green Lake county, Wis. He began the study of law at
Walton, N. Y., and graduated from the Albany Law School as president
of the class in 1884. Subsequently removed to Green Lake county, Wis.,
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 Aug. 20, 1896. On Jan. 1, 1892, he removed
to Oshkosh, 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. He was
elected to Congress in 1896, 1898 and in 1900, receiving 26,326 votes,
against 19,758 for James W. Watson (Dem.).