Davis Elkins
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Davis Elkins (January 24, 1876 - January 5, 1959) was a United States Senator from West Virginia. Born in Washington, D.C., he attended the Lawrenceville School, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Harvard University. During the Spanish-American War he enlisted as a private in the First West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, becoming assistant adjutant general in 1898.
Elkins was an industrialist with interests in railroads, banking, utilities, and coal mining; he was appointed as a Republican to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Stephen B. Elkins, and served from January 9 to January 31, 1911, when a successor was elected. During the First World War he served in the United States Army in France, 1917-1918. He was then elected to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1925; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1924. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce (Sixty-sixth Congress).
From 1936 to 1956 he was owner of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Company. Davis Elkins died in Richmond, Virginia in 1959; interment was in Maplewood Cemetery, Elkins, West Virginia.
Davis Elkins was a son of Stephen Benton Elkins and a grandson of Henry Gassaway Davis, both U.S. Senators from West Virginia.His daughter Katherine was also engaged for some time with the Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi,the cousin of the king of Italy
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- Davis Elkins at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2008-04-04
| Preceded by Stephen B. Elkins |
Class 2 Senator from West Virginia 1911–1911 |
Succeeded by Clarence W. Watson |
| Preceded by Nathan Goff, Jr. |
Class 2 Senator from West Virginia 1919–1925 |
Succeeded by Guy D. Goff |
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