Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....DAVIDSON, JAMES H.
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Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

EIGHTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

Calumet, Manitowoc, Portage, Waupaca, Waushara and
Winnebago counties. Population, 1900—194,634.

JAMES H. DAVIDSON (Rep.), 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 1893; was elected to
the 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th and 61st
congresses, receiving 23,007 votes against 11,984 for
Lyman J. Nash (Dem.), 1,389 for Martin Georgenson (Soc.
Dem.), 851 for Byron F. Van Kueren (Pro.).

Additional Comments:
Beck, J. D. . The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1909.

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