John W. Davis
American, 1873 - 1955
U.S Representative from West Virginia (1911-1913)
Solicitor General of the U.S (1913-1918)
Ambassador to Great Britain (1918-1921)
Democratic Presidential Candidate (1920 & 1924)
Democratic Presidential Nominee (1924)
Davis was a lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United States. He served as Solicitor General and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom under President Woodrow Wilson. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for president in 1924, losing to Republican Calvin Coolidge. He argued some 140 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and notably won the argument against President Turman’s seizure of the nation’s steel plants and unsuccessfully defended the “separate but equal” doctrine in Briggs v. Elliott, a companion case to Brown v. Board of Education which legally ended school segregation.
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Ambassador to Great Britain (1918-1921)
Democratic Presidential Candidate (1920 & 1924)
Democratic Presidential Nominee (1924)
Davis was a lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United States. He served as Solicitor General and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom under President Woodrow Wilson. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for president in 1924, losing to Republican Calvin Coolidge. He argued some 140 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and notably won the argument against President Turman’s seizure of the nation’s steel plants and unsuccessfully defended the “separate but equal” doctrine in Briggs v. Elliott, a companion case to Brown v. Board of Education which legally ended school segregation.
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