Thomas Davenport (congressman) explained

Thomas Davenport
State:Virginia
District:6th
Term Start:March 4, 1825
Term End:March 3, 1835
Predecessor:George Tucker
Successor:Walter Coles
Office2:Chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures
Term2:March 4, 1833  - March 3, 1835
Predecessor2:Thomas H. Hall
Successor2:Sherman Page
Birth Date:birth date unknown
Birth Place:Halifax County, Virginia
Death Place:Meadville, Halifax County, Virginia
Party:Anti-Jacksonian (after 1825)
Otherparty:Jacksonian (before 1825)
Battles:War of 1812
Branch:Virginia state militia
Rank:Captain

Thomas Davenport (died November 17, 1838) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.

Biography

Born in Halifax County, Virginia, where his parents were living by 1783, Davenport completed preparatory studies and received a license to operate as a merchant in Meadville, Virginia. He was a captain in the county militia during the War of 1812.

Davenport was elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through the Twenty-second Congresses and elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1825March 3, 1835). He chaired the Committee on Public Expenditures (Twenty-third Congress).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress.He died near Meadville, on November 17, 1838.

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