Robert Charles Davey | |
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 Robert Charles Davey | |
| Member of the Louisiana State Senate | |
| In office March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895 | |
| Preceded by | Matthew Diamond Lagan |
| Succeeded by | Charles Francis Buck |
| Member of the Louisiana State Senate | |
| In office March 4, 1897 – December 26, 1908 | |
| Preceded by | Charles Francis Buck |
| Succeeded by | Samuel Louis Gilmore |
| President pro tempore of the Louisiana State Senate | |
| In office 1884–1886 | |
| Judge of the First Recorder's Court in New Orleans | |
| In office 1880–1888 | |
| Member of the Louisiana State Senate | |
| In office 1879–1892 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 22, 1853 New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Died | December 26, 1908 New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri |
| Profession | Merchant, Politician, Judge |
Robert Charles Davey (October 22, 1853 – December 26, 1908) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Davey attended the public schools, and was graduated from St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in 1871. He engaged in mercantile pursuits.
Davey was elected to the State Senate in 1879, 1884, and again in 1892. He served as president pro tempore of the senate during the sessions of 1884 and 1886. He served as judge of the first recorder's court in New Orleans 1880-1888. He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of New Orleans in 1888.
Davey was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1894.
Davey was elected to the Fifty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until his death.[1] Had been reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, but died in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 26, 1908, before the close of the Sixtieth Congress. He was interred in Metairie Cemetery.
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- ^ "S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903". GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. 9 November 1903. p. 41. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- United States Congress. "Robert C. Davey (id: D000081)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Robert C. Davey, late a Representative from Louisiana, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1911
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