George Roscoe Davis was a Washington, DC lawyer.

Biography

In the late 1800s, he moved from Maine to Washington, DC to attend classes at

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where in 1894 he became a charter member of the Columbian University chapter of

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. That same year, George R. Davis was awarded both the Staughton Prize for excellence in the Latin language and literature and the Elton Prize for excellence in the Greek language and literature. In 1895 he also won the

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for Excellence in Mathematics and was the sole recipient of a Bachelor of Arts degree awarded by the university that session. After graduation George R. Davis worked as a lawyer for the Washington

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and later for the income tax administration of the

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. In 1922, he partnered a new law firm with

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. In 1926, he helped argue the prohibition/customs case Ford v. US, 273 U.S. 593 before the Supreme Court. Served on the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction

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of Free Masonry.Transactions of the Supreme Council of the 33d and Last Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America, By Scottish Rite (Masonic order), Published by House of the Temple, 1917
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References

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