# George Allen Davis > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/George_Allen_Davis > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/George_Allen_Davis.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen_Davis > Source revision: 1340649715 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American politician (1857–1920)}} {{infobox person | name=George Allen Davis | image=George A. Davis, New York lawyer and legislator.jpg | image_caption = | birth_date=August 5, 1857 | death_date=February 12, 1920 | occupation=Lawyer }} '''George Allen Davis''' (August 5, 1857 – February 12, 1920) was a U.S. lawyer, patron of the arts and a politician from [New York](/source/New_York_(state)). == Life == He was Supervisor of the [Town of Lancaster](/source/Lancaster%2C_New_York) from 1888 to 1891, and from 1893 to 1897; and a delegate to the [New York State Constitutional Convention](/source/New_York_State_Constitutional_Convention) of 1894. He was a member of the [New York State Senate](/source/New_York_State_Senate) from 1896 to 1910, sitting in the [119th](/source/119th_New_York_State_Legislature), [120th](/source/120th_New_York_State_Legislature), [121st](/source/121st_New_York_State_Legislature), [122nd](/source/122nd_New_York_State_Legislature), [123rd](/source/123rd_New_York_State_Legislature), [124th](/source/124th_New_York_State_Legislature), [125th](/source/125th_New_York_State_Legislature), [126th](/source/126th_New_York_State_Legislature), [127th](/source/127th_New_York_State_Legislature), [128th](/source/128th_New_York_State_Legislature), [129th](/source/129th_New_York_State_Legislature) (all eleven 49th D.), [130th](/source/130th_New_York_State_Legislature), [131st](/source/131st_New_York_State_Legislature), [132nd](/source/132nd_New_York_State_Legislature) and [133rd New York State Legislature](/source/133rd_New_York_State_Legislature)s (all four 50th D.). In 1909 Davis was among a trio of finalist judges, including, Sir [Byron Edmund Walker](/source/Byron_Edmund_Walker) of the [Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce](/source/Canadian_Imperial_Bank_of_Commerce) in Toronto and [Sir George Christie Gibbons](/source/George_Christie_Gibbons) of [London, Ontario](/source/London%2C_Ontario), all patrons of the arts, whom were asked to join the selection committee for the [Bell Telephone Memorial](/source/Bell_Telephone_Memorial) and choose the design sculptor for a major Bell Telephone monument in [Brantford, Canada](/source/Brantford).Marquis, T.G. [http://brantford.library.on.ca/localhistory/pdfs/1909expositor.pdf Brantford, The Telephone City], ''The Greater Brantford Expositor'', pp.13-14, 20, 1909. Davis is buried in his family's mausoleum at Lancaster Rural Cemetery. No-hitter pitcher [Iron Davis](/source/Iron_Davis) (1890–1961) was his son. == Sources == ''' Citations ''' {{Reflist}} ''' Bibliography ''' * [https://archive.org/stream/journalofconstit00newyrich#page/n14/mode/1up ''Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York 1894''] (Albany, 1895; pg. 14) * [https://archive.org/stream/officialnewyorkf04fitc#page/364/mode/1up ''Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes''] by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; pg. 364ff) * [https://archive.today/20130201064131/http://history.rays-place.com/ny/lancaster-ny.htm History of Lancaster, NY] transcribed from ''Our County and Its People: A Descriptive History of Erie County, NY'' by Truman C. White (1898) * [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/02/13/118261510.pdf ''Ex-State Senator George A. Davis''] in NYT on February 13, 1920 ==External links== *{{Commons category-inline}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|us-ny-sen}} {{succession box | before = new district | title = [New York State Senate](/source/New_York_State_Senate)
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50th District | years = 1907–1910 | after = [George B. Bird](/source/George_B._Bird)}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, George Allen}} Category:1857 births Category:1920 deaths Category:Republican Party New York (state) state senators Category:People from Lancaster, New York Category:Town supervisors in New York (state) Category:20th-century members of the New York State Legislature Category:19th-century members of the New York State Legislature --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [George Allen Davis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen_Davis) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen_Davis?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.