"Portraits of United States Senators." (detail)
Gulick, Pierson, and Wright
Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion
February 19, 1853
Transcript:
John Davis of Massachusetts
John Davis of Mass. (honest John) when I was a page in the Senate called me up to his seat and asked me several questions and he repeated with emphasis, “Isaac don’t you leave the service of the Senate. Stay here as long as you can.” It made a deep impression on my little mind, and here I am yet May 4, 1885. He was a senator liked by everybody in the Senate. When he spoke he was listened to with deep attention, for what he said he meant. Mild in his intercourse with senators, officers and pages. [9B42]
Editor's Note:
John Davis was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian (later Whig) to the U.S. Senate and represented Massachusetts from 1835 to 1841, when he resigned. He was elected again in 1845 to the Senate as a Whig, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Isaac C. Bates. He served until 1853.
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