Biography

12/26/1765 - 09/05/1854


DAVIS, Samuel Boyer, a Representative from Philadelphia City; born, December 26, 1765 in Lewes, Sussex County, De.; midshipman, French Navy (1791-1794); lieutenant colonel, 32nd Infantry, United States Army (1812-1813, War of 1812); colonel, 44th Regiment, United States Army (1814, War of 1812); adjutant, 14th Infantry, United States Army (1847-1848, Mexico); privateer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1830-1831 and 1831-1832 terms; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1834); died, September 5, 1854 near Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware; interred, Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. 


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