Robert Lee Davis (October 29, 1893 – May 5, 1967) was a
Republican member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania.
Biography
Robert L. Davis was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from
Brown University
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in
Providence, Rhode Island. He worked for the
Pennsylvania Railroad
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from 1910 to 1932. During the
First World War he served in the
United States Navy. After the war, he served as assistant executive director of the Republican central campaign committee of Philadelphia from 1928 to 1932, and as director of the Republican city committee from 1932 to 1935.
Davis was elected as a Republican to the
Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative
George A. Welsh. He was not a candidate for election in 1932. He worked as a businessman, real-estate broker, and commissioner of the
Pinellas County Commission from 1962 to 1967. He died in
Timonium, Maryland, and his remains were cremated.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
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1893 births
1967 deaths
Politicians from Philadelphia
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
20th-century American politicians
Brown University alumni