Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....DAVIDSON, JAMES H. 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

EIGHTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Calumet, Manitowoc, Portage,
Waupaca, Waushara and Winnebago counties. Population in
1900—194,634.

JAMES H. DAVIDSON (Rep.), was born June 18, 1858, in
Colchester, Delaware county, N. Y.; received a common school
education in the public schools and at Walton Academy,
Walton, N. Y.; was a teacher in the public schools of
Delaware and Sullivan counties, N. Y., for several years,
and for one year was engaged in the same occupation at
Princeton, Green Lake county, Wis. He began the study of law
at Walton, N. Y., and graduated from the Albany Law School
as president of the class in 1884. Subsequently removed to
Green Lake county, Wis., and commenced the practice of law
in that county in 1887 ; was elected district attorney of
Green Lake county in 1888, and in 1890 was chosen chairman
of the republican congressional committee for the sixth
district of Wisconsin, and continued in that position until
he was nominated for congress on Aug. 20, 1896. On Jan. 1,
1892, he removed to Oshkosh, and became a member of the law
firm of Thompson, Harshaw & Davidson, which partnership
continued for three years, when he withdrew and continued
the practice alone. In May, 1895, he was appointed city
attorney of that city for a term of two years. He was
elected to congress in 1896, 1898, 1900 and in 1902,
receiving 19,553 votes against 12,651 for Thomas H.
Patterson (Dem.), 733 for Joseph Mathews (Pro.), and 880 for
Charles C. Frain (Soc).

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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