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Davidson, James H

educator, was born June 18, 1858, in Colchester, Del.

He was a teacher in the public schools of Delaware and Sullivan counties, N. Y., for several years, and for one year was engaged at the same occupation at Princeton, Wis. He was elected district attorney of Green Lake county in 1888, and in 1890 was chosen chairman of the republican congressional committee for the sixth district of Wisconsin, and continued in that position until nominated for the fifty-fifth congress. In 1892 he removed to Oshkosh, Wis.; and in 1895 was appointed city attorney of that city for a term of two years. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

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