CUSHMAN

See also:

• KELLOGG, CLARA LOUISE (1842— )

KELLOGG

See also:

• DAVIS (or DAVYS), JOHN (1550 ?-16o5)
• DAVIS, ANDREW JACKSON (1826—1910)
• DAVIS, CHARLES HOWARD (1857- )
• CUSHMAN KELLOGG DAVIS (1838-1900)
• DAVIS, HENRY WILLIAM BANKS (1833- )
• DAVIS, HENRY WINTER (1817-1865)
• DAVIS, JEFFERSON (1808–1889)
• DAVIS, THOMAS OSBORNE (1814–1845)

DAVIS (1838-1900)  , American political leader and lawyer, was born in Henderson, New York, on the 16th of June 1838 . He was taken by his parents to Wisconsin Territory in the year of his birth, and was educated at Carroll College, Waukesha; Wisconsin, and at the university of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1857 . After studying law in the office of Alexander W . Randall, he was admitted to the bar in 186o . During the Civil War, as a first lieutenant of Federal volunteers, he served in the western campaigns of 1862 and 1863, and in 1864 was an aide to General Willis A . Gorman (1814-1876) . Resigning his commission (1864) on account of ill-health, he soon settled in St Paul, Minnesota, where he practised law in partnership with General Gorman, and soon became prominent both at the bar and, as a Republican, in politics . He served in the state House of Representatives in 1867, 1868-1873 was United States district attorney for Minnesota . In 1874-1876 he was governor of the state, and from 1887 until his death was a member of the United States Senate . In the Senate he was one of the acknowledged leaders of his party, an able and frequent speaker and a committee worker of great industry . In March 1897 he became chairman of the committee on foreign relations at a time when its work was peculiarly influential in shaping American foreign policy . His extensive knowledge of inter-national law, and his tact and diplomacy, enabled him to render services of the utmost importance in connexion with the Spanish-American War, and he was one of the peace commissioners who negotiated and signed the treaty of Paris by which the war was terminated .

He died at St Paul on the 27th of

November 1900 . Few public men in the United States since the Civil War have combined skill in diplomacy, constructive statesmanship, talent for political organization, oratorical ability and broad culture to such a degree as Senator Davis . In addition to various speeches and public addresses, he published an essay entitled The Law of Shakespeare (1899) .