Samuel Davis

Samuel Davis

Samuel Davis (1774, Bath, Maine – April 20 1831, Bath, Maine) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

Born in Bath, Maine (until 1820 a district of Massachusetts), Davis engaged in mercantile pursuits. He became a shipowner in 1801. He served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1803 and 1808-1812. He served as overseer of Bowdoin College 1813-1818. He served as president of the Lincoln Bank in his hometown of Bath, Maine in 1813.

Davis was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4 1813 - March 3 1815). He was again a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1815 and 1816.

In his private life he was a merchant in African and West Indian trade. Fact|date=March 2008

He died in Bath, Maine on April 20 1831 and was interred in Maple Grove Cemetery.

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