David Floyd Davis
{{short description|American politician}}
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| name = David Floyd Davis
| birth_place = Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York
| death_place = Newark, New Jersey
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| state_senate = New York
| district = 4th
| term_start = 1899
| term_end = 1900
| predecessor = George W. Brush
| successor = Arthur J. Audett
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David Floyd Davis (July 10, 1867 – November 7, 1951) was an American businessman and politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of David Frank Davis and Betsey Sophia (Wiggins) Davis. In 1890, he opened an oil distribution business. On November 15, 1893, he married Edith Clyde Smith, and they had two children.
Davis was a member of the New York State Assembly (Kings Co., 4th D.) in 1898; and a member of the New York State Senate (4th D.) in 1899 and 1900.
In 1906, he testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission to how Standard Oil was trying to push independent oil dealers out of business.
Sources
- [http://www.longislandsurnames.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I2989&tree=Beebe Davis genealogy]
- [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/12/01/101718024.pdf HOW OIL TRUST BLOCKS NEW YORK COMPETITION] in NYT on December 1, 1906
- [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/03/25/106731274.pdf OIL CO. HELD CULPABLE] in NYT on March 25, 1915
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{{succession box | before = George W. Wilson | title = New York State Assembly
Kings County, 4th District | years = 1898 | after = Charles H. Cotton}}
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{{succession box | before = George W. Brush | title = New York State Senate
4th District | years = 1899–1900| after = Arthur J. Audett}}
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Category:Republican Party New York (state) state senators
Category:People from Riverhead (town), New York
Category:Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
Category:Politicians from Brooklyn
Category:19th-century members of the New York State Legislature