Roger Davis (October 2, 1762November 20, 1815) was a member of the

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from

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. Roger Davis was born in Charlestown Village in the

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. He studied medicine at the

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and commenced practice about 1785 in Charlestown. He was a member of the

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from 1809 to 1811. Davis was elected as a Republican to the Twelfth and

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Congresses. He resumed the practice of medicine in Charlestown, where he died in 1815, and was interred in Great Valley Presbyterian Churchyard.

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