John Davis (Kansas politician)
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John Davis (August 9, 1826 - August 1, 1901) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born near Springfield, Illinois, Davis moved with his parents to Macon County in 1830. He attended the country schools, Springfield Academy, and Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois. He engaged in agricultural and horticultural pursuits near Decatur, Illinois. He moved to Kansas in 1872 and located on a farm near Junction City. Secretary of the Central Kansas Horticultural Society for many years.
Davis was elected president of the first distinctive farmers' convention held in Kansas in 1873, out of which grew the Farmers' Cooperative Association, of which he was the first president. He served as president of the Grange convention in 1874. He became proprietor and editor of the Junction City Tribune in 1875. He was an unsuccessful candidate of the Greenback Party for election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress and in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress.
Davis was elected as a Populist to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress. Devoted his time to literary work until his death in Topeka, Kansas, August 1, 1901. He was interred in Topeka Cemetery.
