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Up for sale a RARE! "Virginia Congressman" Thomas Davenport Clipped Signature.
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Thomas Davenport (died
November 17, 1838) was Born in Halifax County, Virginia, where his parents were living by
1783, Davenport completed preparatory studies and received a license to operate
as a merchant in Meadville, Virginia. He was a captain in the county militia
during the War of 1812. Davenport was
elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through the Twenty-second Congresses
and elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4,
1825 – March 3, 1835). He chaired the Committee on Public Expenditures
(Twenty-third Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress. He died near Meadville, on November 17,
1838.
