William Tecumseh Davies (December 20, 1831 – September 21, 1912) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Pennsylvania state senator and as the fourth
lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1891.
Davies was born in
Glamorgan
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, Government = Glamorgan County Council (1889–1974)
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* Mid Glamorgan
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Wales. His family emigrated to
Towanda, Pennsylvania, in his youth. He volunteered to serve in the Union Army in the American Civil War and rose to the rank of captain but received a medical discharge in 1863. He was admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1861 and was elected as district attorney of
Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in 1865.
A member of the
Republican Party
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, Davies was later elected to two terms as a member of the
Pennsylvania State Senate
The Pennsylvania State Senate is the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Pennsylvania state legislature. The State Senate meets in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg. Senators are elected for four year terms, staggered ev ...
representing Bradford and
Wyoming counties from 1877 to 1885.
References
External links
The Political Graveyard
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1831 births
1912 deaths
People from Glamorgan
Lieutenant governors of Pennsylvania
Republican Party Pennsylvania state senators
Pennsylvania lawyers
Welsh emigrants to the United States
19th-century American legislators
19th-century American lawyers