George R. Davis (New York)

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George Rex Davis was an American lawyer and politician.

[edit] Life

About 1799, he moved to Hoosick Falls, New York, and opened a tailor shop there. Later he studied law, and was admitted to the bar about 1810, and commenced practice there.

In 1814, one hundred and twenty-eight volunteers under George R. Davis joined the State Militia, and all marched from Troy to Plattsburgh, but the Battle of Plattsburgh had been fought before they reached there.

When he became a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Rensselaer County in 1829, he moved to the county seat Troy.

In 1830, under the provisions of the Safety Fund Law, he was appointed Bank Commissioner.

He was a member from Rensselaer County, New York of the New York State Assembly, and was Speaker in 1831 and 1843.

He died drowning. His granddaughters Mary and Caroline Patchen, aged 23 and 20, also died drowning, in a shipwreck on Lake Erie in June 1868.

[edit] Sources

• [1] Mention at Morrison's Pensions
• [2] Political Graveyard
• [3] NY Court History
• [4] History of Hoosick NY
• [5] Shipwreck in NYT on June 23, 1868
• [6] Google Books = John Stilwell Jenkins: History of Political Parties in the State of New-York (Alden & Markham, Auburn NY, 1846)