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Henry Winter Davis

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Henry Winter Davis 1817-65, American political leader, b. Annapolis, Md. He was elected (1854) to the House of Representatives on the Know-Nothing ticket and was twice reelected (1856, 1858) with the aid of the Republican party. He tried to remain neutral on the slavery issue, but in 1860 cast the deciding vote for a Republican as speaker, which enabled the Republicans to organize the House. His action was censured by the Maryland legislature, and he was not reelected. Davis became the leader of the Unionist forces in Maryland in opposition to Governor Hicks, whose sympathies were Southern. Again... Read more
Henry Winter Davis
Henry Winter Davis The American congressman Henry Winter Davis (1817-1865) was a leading advocate...Lincoln's more conservative course. Henry Winter Davis was born Aug. 16, 1817, in Annapolis... Read more
David Davis
...Kenyon College, 1832; cousin of Henry Winter Davis. In 1836 he settled as a lawyer...home thereafter. From 1848 to 1862 Davis presided over the eighth judicial...spare Lincoln and the corpulent Davis often bunked together in traveling... Read more

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