David Davis in the United States
Davis, David (1815_1883)
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled DAVIS, DAVID (1815_1883) David Davis’s Supreme Court appointment in 1862 stemmed from his longtime legal and political association with abraham lincoln. Throughout the civil war, Davis loyally supported the administration in the prize cases (1863) and ex parte vallandigham (1864) , but he opposed the
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Introduction to David Davis
David Davis (1815-1886), American jurist, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, born in Cecil County, Maryland. Educated at Kenyon College and Yale Law School, he served in the Illinois legislature. In 1848 he was named presiding judge of the eighth judicial circuit of the state of Illinois. When Abraham Lincoln campaigned in 1860 for the U.S. presidency, Davis was an active supporter. President Lincoln appointed him associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1862.
Davis’s most memorable act on the bench was writing the majority opinion in a landmark civil rights case, Ex parte Milligan (1866). In this decision, the court set aside the death sentence imposed by a military commission during the American Civil War upon a civilian, Lambdin P. Milligan, who had been found guilty of inciting to insurrection. The Court held that since the civil courts were operative, the trial of a civilian by a military tribunal was unconstitutional.
Davis received the presidential nomination of the Labor Reform convention in 1872 but withdrew from the race when he failed to get the nomination of the Liberal Republican Party. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1877 to 1883.” (1)
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- Information about David Davis in the Encarta Online Encyclopedia
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