Samuel Davis (American politician) explained

Samuel Davis
State:Massachusetts
Term Start:March 4, 1813
Term End:March 3, 1815
Predecessor:Peleg Tallman
Successor:Benjamin Brown
Birth Place:Bath, Massachusetts Bay, British America (now Maine)
Death Place:Bath, Maine, U.S.
Party:Federalist
Occupation:Merchant

Samuel Davis (1774  - April 20, 1831) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

Biography

Born in Bath in Massachusetts Bay's Province of Maine, Davis engaged in mercantile pursuits and became a shipowner in 1801. He served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1803 and 1808-1812. He served as overseer of Bowdoin College from 1813 to 1818 and as president of Lincoln Bank in Bath in 1813.

Davis was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815). He was again a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1815 and 1816.

In his private life he was a merchant in African and West Indian trade.

He died in Bath, Maine, on April 20, 1831, and was interred in Maple Grove Cemetery.

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