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John C. Bancroft Davis

Lawyer/Diplomat/Railroad Officer

Centurion, 1855–1895

Full Name John Chandler Bancroft Davis

Born 29 December 1822 in Worcester, Massachusetts

Died 27 December 1907 in Washington, District of Columbia

Buried Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Jamaica, New York

Proposed by J. Howard Wainwright

Elected 7 April 1855 at age thirty-two

Archivist’s Note: He ostensibly resigned sometime between 1857 and 1860 and was reinstated in June 1864 with a new set of proposers, Jonathan Sturges and Abraham M. Cozzens. Brother of Andrew McFarland Davis.