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November 17, 1838 (aged 59–60)Meadville, Halifax County, Virginia

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Anti-Jacksonian (after 1825)

Thomas Davenport (died November 17, 1838) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.

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Biography

Born in Halifax County, Virginia, where his parents were living by 1783, Davenport completed preparatory studies and received a license to operate as a merchant in Meadville, Virginia. He was a captain in the county militia during the War of 1812.

Davenport was elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through the Twenty-second Congresses and elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1835). He chaired the Committee on Public Expenditures (Twenty-third Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress. He died near Meadville, on November 17, 1838.

Elections

  • 1825; Davenport was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives unopposed.
  • 1827; Davenport was re-elected unopposed.
  • 1829; Davenport was re-elected unopposed.
  • 1831; Davenport was re-elected unopposed.
  • 1833; Davenport was re-elected with 51.04% of the vote, defeating Independents Benjamin W.S. Cabell and Oden G. Clay.
  • 1835; Davenport lost his bid for re-election.
  • References

    Thomas Davenport (congressman) Wikipedia


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