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69th Congress Pictorial Directory, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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DAVIS, Ewin Lamar, a Representative from Tennessee;
born in Bedford County, Tenn., February 5, 1876;
attended the public schools, Webb School, Bell Buckle, Tenn., Woolwine School, Tullahoma, Tenn., and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., 1895-1897;
was graduated from Columbian (now George Washington) University Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1899;
was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Tullahoma, Tenn.;
delegate to all Democratic State conventions 1900-1910;
judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Tennessee 1910-1918;
chairman of the district exemption board for the middle district of Tennessee in 1917 and 1918;
director of the Traders National Bank of Tullahoma 1903-1940;
trustee of Tennessee College for Women 1906-1939;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933);
chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Seventy-second Congress);
was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932;
member of the Federal Trade Commission from May 23, 1933, until his death, serving as chairman in 1935, 1940, and 1945;
member of the American National Committee, Third World Power Conference, in 1936;
died in Washington, D.C., on October 23, 1949;
interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Tullahoma, Tenn.
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