Stanley Woodward Davenport

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Stanley Woodward Davenport (July 21, 1861–September 26, 1921) was a Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Stanley W. Davenport was born in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. He attended Wyoming Seminary, and graduated from the Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1884. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1890 and commenced practice in Plymouth in 1891. He was appointed a director of the poor for the central district of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in 1893, and later served as secretary and treasurer of the poor district. He was the register of wills of Luzerne County from 1894 to 1897.

Davenport was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1900. He resumed the practice of law in Plymouth and died in 1921. Interment in Plymouth Cemetery.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Morgan B. Williams

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district 1899 - 1901

Succeeded by Henry W. Palmer