James H. Davidson

James H. Davidson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin
In office March 4, 1917 – August 6, 1918 (died)
Preceded by	Michael K. Reilly
Succeeded by	Florian Lampert
Constituency	6th district
In office March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1913
Preceded by	Edward S. Minor
Succeeded by	Edward E. Browne
Constituency	8th district
In office March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1903
Preceded by	Samuel A. Cook
Succeeded by	Charles H. Weisse
Constituency	6th district
District Attorney of Green Lake County, Wisconsin
In office January 1, 1889 – January 1, 1891
Preceded by	Perry Niskern
Succeeded by	John L. Millard
Personal details
Born	(1858-06-18)June 18, 1858 Colchester, New York, U.S.
Died	August 6, 1918(1918-08-06) (aged 60) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place	Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Niva Therese Wilde ​ ​ (m. 1889⁠–⁠1918)​
Children	Kenneth Wilde Davidson (b. 1891; died 1938) James Ferdinand Davidson (b. 1896; died 1972) Avery Ann (Long) (b. 1902; died 1963)
Alma mater	Albany Law School
Profession	Lawyer
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James Henry Davidson (June 18, 1858 – August 6, 1918) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He represented eastern Wisconsin for nine terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1897 to 1913, and from 1917 until his death in 1918. Earlier in his career, he was district attorney of Green Lake County, Wisconsin, and city attorney of Oshkosh.

Born in Colchester, New York,^[1] Davidson attended the public schools and Walton (New York) Academy.^[1] He taught school in Delaware and Sullivan Counties, New York.^[1] He graduated from the Albany Law School in 1884 and was admitted to the bar the same year. He moved to Green Lake County, Wisconsin, and commenced practice in Princeton, Wisconsin, in 1887.

Davidson was elected district attorney of Green Lake County in 1888. He served as chairman of the Republican congressional committee for the sixth district of Wisconsin in 1890. He moved to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on January 1, 1892, and continued the practice of law. He was appointed city attorney in May 1895 for two years.

Davidson was elected representative of Wisconsin's 6th congressional district as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1903). He served as chairman of the Committee on Railways and Canals (Fifty-sixth through Sixty-first Congresses). From the Fifty-eighth Congress Davidson redistricted and was elected as the representative of Wisconsin's 8th congressional district and was reelected to the four succeeding congresses in the same role (March 4, 1903 – March 4, 1913) He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress and for election in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress. For the Sixty-fifth Congress Davidson was once again elected as the representative of Wisconsin's 6th district serving from March 4, 1917, until his death in Washington, D.C., on August 6, 1918. He died of heart disease^[1][2] and was interred in Riverside Cemetery in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. On April 5, 1917, he was one of the 50 representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany.

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)

• United States Congress. "James H. Davidson (id: D000084)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Obituary - New York Times
• James H. Davidson, late a representative from Wisconsin, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1917

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