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Senate Years of Service: 1907-1913
Party: Democrat
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DAVIS, Jeff, a Senator from Arkansas; born near Richmond, Little River County, Ark., May 6,
1862; attended school in Russellville, Ark., and graduated from Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tenn., in 1884; studied law; admitted to the bar in Pope County, Ark., and commenced practice in
Russellville, Ark.; prosecuting attorney of the fifth judicial district 1892-1896; attorney general of the
State 1898-1900; Governor of Arkansas 1901-1906; continued the practice of law at Little Rock,
Ark., in 1906; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1907,
until his death in Little Rock, Ark., January 3, 1913; chairman, Committee on the Mississippi and its
Tributaries (Sixty-second Congress); interment in Mount Holly Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Arsenault, Raymond. The Wild Ass of the
Ozarks: Jeff Davis and the Social Bases of Southern Politics. 1984, Reprint. Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1988; Niswonger, Richard L. “A Study in Southern Demagoguery: Jeff
Davis of Arkansas.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 39 (Summer 1980): 114-24.
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