Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....DAVIDSON, JAMES H.
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Author: Halford Erickson

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS. UNITED STATES. REPRESENTATIVES.

EIGHTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Calumet, Manitowoc,
Portage, Waupaca, Waushara and Winnebago
Counties. Population, 1900-194,634.

JAMES H. DAVIDSON, of Oshkosh, was born in Colchester,
Delaware county, New York, June 18th, 1858; was educated
in the public schools and at Walton (New York) Academy;
taught school, studied law, graduated from Albany Law
School as president of the class in 1884, and was in the
same year admitted to the bar of New York; subsequently
removed to Wisconsin and commenced the practice of law at
Princeton in 1887; in 1892 removed to Oshkosh and
continued the practice of law; in 1895 was appointed city
attorney; was chairman of the republican congressional
committee from 1890 to 1896; was elected to the Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth as a
republican, receiving 25,233 votes, against 12,889 for C.
F. Crane (Dem.), 1,092 for J. J. "Petz (Soc), and 777 for
Charles A. Smart (Pro.).

Additional Comments:
Erickson, Halford.  The Blue Book of the State of
Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer,
1905.

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