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.
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.