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DAVENPORT, Frederick Morgan, a Representative from New York; born in Salem, Essex County, Mass.,
August 27, 1866; attended the public schools; moved with his parents to
Pennsylvania in 1874 and settled in New Milford; moved to Yonkers, N.Y., in
1893; was graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1889 and
from Columbia University, New York City, in 1905; member of the faculty of
political science of Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., 1904-1929; served in the
State senate 1909-1911; unsuccessful Progressive candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York in 1912 and for Governor in 1914; again a member of the
State senate 1919-1925; chairman of the New York State Legislative Committee on
Taxation and Retrenchment 1919-1925; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1924; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress and for election in 1934 to
the Seventy-fourth Congress; president of the National Institute of Public
Affairs, Washington, D.C., 1934-1949; chairman of the Federal Personnel
Council, Washington, D.C., from 1939 until his retirement in 1953; died in
Washington, D.C., December 26, 1956; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York
City.
Bibliography Teti, Frank M. Profile of a Progressive: The Life of Frederick
Morgan Davenport. Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, 1966.
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