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Davis, Henry Winter

lawyer, congressman, author, was born Aug. 16, 1817, in Annapolis, Md. He was elected a representative from Maryland to the thirtyfourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses; and also elected to the thirtyeighth congress. In 1864 he was appointed a regent of the Smithsonian institution.

He was conspicuously loyal to the union during the civil war. He was the author of The War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the Nineteenth Century; and Speeches and Addresses in Congress. He died Dec. 30, 1865, in Baltimore, Md.