Garrett Davis
U. S. House of Representatives, Kentucky, 1839-1847
U. S. Senator, Kentucky, 1861-1872
Born: September 10, 1801, Mount Sterling, Kentucky.
Died: September 22, 1872, Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky.
- Completed preparatory studies.
- Employed in the Office of the County Clerk, Montgomery County, Kentucky, and afterward of Bourbon County, Kentucky.
- Studied law, was admitted to the bar, 1823, and commenced law practice in Paris, Kentucky.
- Member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1833-1835.
- Elected as a Henry Clay Whig to the Twenty-sixth and to the three succeeding U. S. Congresses, March 4, 1839 - March 3, 1847.
- Declined to be a candidate for re-election, 1846, to the Thirtieth U. S. Congress.
- Resumed the practice of law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits.
- Declined to be a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky on the ticket headed by John J. Crittenden, 1848.
- Delegate to the Kentucky State Constitutional Convention, 1849, but resigned because of his opposition to an elective judiciary.
- Nominated by the American Party as a candidate for President of the United States, 1856, but declined.
- Was opposed to secession.
- Supported the Constitutional Union ticket of Bell and Everett, 1860.
- Elected from Kentucky as an old-line Whig to the U. S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused bv the expulsion of John C. Breekinridge.
- Re-elected as a Democrat, 1867, serving from December 10, 1861, until his death in 1872.
Buried: Paris Cemetery, Paris, Kentucky.
(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)