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John W. Davis, a Virginia Beta 1889 member of Phi Kappa Psi, had an illustrious legal and political career. He served in the West Virginia Legislature and U.S. House of Representatives, was appointed Solicitor General by President Woodrow Wilson, and later served as the Democratic nominee for President in 1924, losing to Calvin Coolidge. Davis was praised for his integrity and ability, serving as a constitutional lawyer and representing clients before the Supreme Court in notable cases later in his career. He was described as "one of the most perfect gentlemen" by the King of England during his time as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain.
John W. Davis, a Virginia Beta 1889 member of Phi Kappa Psi, had an illustrious legal and political career. He served in the West Virginia Legislature and U.S. House of Representatives, was appointed Solicitor General by President Woodrow Wilson, and later served as the Democratic nominee for President in 1924, losing to Calvin Coolidge. Davis was praised for his integrity and ability, serving as a constitutional lawyer and representing clients before the Supreme Court in notable cases later in his career. He was described as "one of the most perfect gentlemen" by the King of England during his time as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain.
John W. Davis, a Virginia Beta 1889 member of Phi Kappa Psi, had an illustrious legal and political career. He served in the West Virginia Legislature and U.S. House of Representatives, was appointed Solicitor General by President Woodrow Wilson, and later served as the Democratic nominee for President in 1924, losing to Calvin Coolidge. Davis was praised for his integrity and ability, serving as a constitutional lawyer and representing clients before the Supreme Court in notable cases later in his career. He was described as "one of the most perfect gentlemen" by the King of England during his time as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain.
John W. Davis ~ a solid citizen of absolute integrity and of great ability delegates. It was the longest political convention ever held in the U.S.
John W. Davis, Virginia Beta 1889 and
once the Democratic Partys nominee for President, was described by the King of England as "one of the most perfect gentlemen I have ever met." Brother Davis lost to Calvin Coolidge in the Presidential elections of 1924. Besides his Presidential bid, he was best known from his service as Ambassador to Britain and as a constitutional lawyer. In school at Washington and Lee University, he played football, sang with the glee club, was secretary of the senior class, and was graduated in three years with a degree in modern languages.
In 1952 he represented the steel industry before
the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that President Harry S Trumans seizure of the steel mills in an effort to stave off a strike was illegal. He won his case.
He was elected to the House of Representatives
in 1910 and 1912 after serving in the West Virginia Legislature, was appointed Solicitor General by President Woodrow Wilson, Virginia Alpha 1879, in 1913, and in 1918 was appointed by Wilson as Ambassador to Great Britain.
One of his last cases was representing the state
of South Carolina in a public school segregation case. The Court rejected his arguments for continuing segregation under the separate but equal doctrine.
King George VI was later quoted as having said
of him: Mr. Davis is one of the most perfect gentlemen I have ever met. He resigned as Ambassador in 1921 following the presidential elections and resumed his law practice.
Upon his death on March 24, 1955, the New
York Times wrote of him: Mr. Davis was never spectacular. He was a solid citizen of absolute integrity and of great ability. He had the good fortune to live and to work until an advanced age. That was his countrys good fortune, too.
At the Democratic national convention in New
York in 1924, he was selected as the candidate on the 103rd ballot, after William G. McAdoo and Alfred E. Smith both released their deadlocked
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