James H. Davis (congressman)

James Harvey Cyclone Davis was a Peoples Party organizer and a Democratic U.S. Representative from Texas for one term from 19151917.

Davis was born near Walhalla, South Carolina. He moved to Texas with his parents, William Barton and Salina Davis, who settled in East Texas in Wood County near Winnsboro, in 1857. Davis attended the common schools and taught school from 1875 to 1878. He was able to study under the tutelage of attorney John D. Templeton during his sixteenth year. He strenuously applied his native talents to academics at night and soon qualified for a teaching certificate. He married Belle Barton, a distant cousin, on December 25, 1878. The couple had four children.

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