John Davenport
Birth 9 Jan 1788
Virginia, USA
Death 18 Jul 1855 (aged 67)
Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Northern Cemetery
Barnesville, Belmont County, Ohio, USA
U.S. Congressman. Born near Winchester, Virginia, he moved to Ohio, in 1818 and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was a member of the Ohio State House of Representatives, (1824, 1827) and a member of the Ohio State Senate, (1825-26). In 1827, he was elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress, serving until 1829. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, he was again a member of the Ohio State House of Representatives, in 1830 and served as a as judge of the Monroe County Judicial Circuit. He died at age 67 in Woodsfield, Ohio.
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