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CUSHMAN KELLOGG DAVIS (1838-1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 866 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CUSHMAN See also:KELLOGG See also:DAVIS (1838-1900)  , See also:American See also:political See also:leader and lawyer, was See also:born in See also:Henderson, New See also:York, on the 16th of See also:June 1838 . He was taken by his parents to See also:Wisconsin Territory in the See also:year of his See also:birth, and was educated at See also:Carroll See also:College, See also:Waukesha; Wisconsin, and at the university of See also:Michigan, from which he graduated in 1857 . After studying See also:law in the See also:office of See also:Alexander W . See also:Randall, he was admitted to the See also:bar in 186o . During the See also:Civil See also:War, as a first See also:lieutenant of Federal See also:volunteers, he served in the western See also:campaigns of 1862 and 1863, and in 1864 was an aide to See also:General See also:Willis A . Gorman (1814-1876) . Resigning his See also:commission (1864) on See also:account of See also:ill-See also:health, he soon settled in St See also:Paul, See also:Minnesota, where he practised law in See also:partnership with General Gorman, and soon became prominent both at the bar and, as a Republican, in politics . He served in the See also:state See also:House of Representatives in 1867, 1868-1873 was See also:United States See also:district See also:attorney for Minnesota . In 1874-1876 he was See also:governor of the state, and from 1887 until his See also:death was a member of the United States See also:Senate . In the Senate he was one of the acknowledged leaders of his party, an able and frequent See also:speaker and a See also:committee worker of See also:great See also:industry . In See also:March 1897 he became chairman of the committee on See also:foreign relations at a See also:time when its See also:work was peculiarly influential in shaping American foreign policy . His extensive knowledge of inter-See also:national law, and his tact and See also:diplomacy, enabled him to render services of the utmost importance in connexion with the See also:Spanish-American War, and he was one of the See also:peace commissioners who negotiated and signed the treaty of See also:Paris by which the war was terminated .

He died at St Paul on the 27th of See also:

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

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