Honorific Prefix: | The Honourable |
Thomas Davis | |
Senator | |
Term Start: | 1 September 1905 |
Term End: | 23 January 1917 |
Constituency: | Saskatchewan |
Title2: | Senator |
Term Start2: | 30 September 1904 |
Term End2: | 31 August 1905 |
Predecessor2: | Position established |
Successor2: | Willie Adams |
Constituency2: | Northwest Territories |
Constituency Mp3: | Saskatchewan |
Parliament3: | Canadian |
Majority3: | 741 |
Term Start3: | 18 December 1896 |
Term End3: | 29 September 1904 |
Predecessor3: | Wilfrid Laurier |
Successor3: | John Henderson Lamont |
Birth Date: | 1856 8, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Sherrington, Canada East, Province of Canada |
Death Place: | Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Birthname: | Thomas Osborne Davis |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Party: | Liberal |
Occupation: | Merchant, politician |
Committees: | Select Committee on Resources of the Territory between Labrador and the Rocky Mountains |
Thomas Osborne Davis (16 August 1856 – 23 January 1917) was a Canadian Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada representing the Provisional District of Saskatchewan, and later a member of the Senate of Canada.
He was tutored by his father Samuel Davis and became a general merchant at Prince Albert, Northwest Territories. In 1885, he married Rebecca Jennings.[1] He served on the town council for Prince Albert and was mayor from 1894 to 1895.
Davis died in office in Prince Albert at the age of 60.[1] His son Thomas Clayton Davis also served as mayor of Prince Albert, going on to serve in the Saskatchewan assembly, as a Saskatchewan judge and as an ambassador for Canada.[2] Davis' daughter Alice was married to hockey executive and banker H. J. Sterling.[3]
The hamlet of Davis, Saskatchewan was named after him.