Cushman Kellogg Davis was an American politician who served as the seventh Governor of Minnesota

Governor of Minnesota

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 from January 7, 1874 to January 7, 1876 and as a U.S. Senator

United States Senate

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 in the 50th

50th United States Congress

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, 51st

51st United States Congress

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, 52nd

52nd United States Congress

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, 53rd

53rd United States Congress

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, 54th

54th United States Congress

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, 55th

55th United States Congress

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, and 56th United States Congress

56th United States Congress

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es, from March 4, 1887 until his death. Senator Davis served in the peace treaty talks that ended the Spanish-American War

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. He was a Republican.

He was born in Henderson, New York

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, and went to Wisconsin Territory

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 with his parents before he was a year old. He went to school at Carroll College, and then the University of Michigan

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, graduating in 1857. Admitted to the bar in 1860, he soon after found himself serving in the American Civil War

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 in the 28th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

28th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

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, serving first as a lieutenant in charge of Company B of this volunteer regiment. He was in action in the western campaigns

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, then in 1864 as an aide to General Willis A. Gorman

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. His political career began with a term in the state house, in 1867. He died in Saint Paul, Minnesota

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The old county name; Davis County Minnesota was named after him.

Cushman Davis' sister Maria Janet Davis married South Dakota jurist and diplomat Bartlett Tripp

Bartlett Tripp

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