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'''Harry Edward Davis''' (December 26, 1882 – February 4, 1955) was a lawyer and state legislator in Ohio.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4014coll18/id/4412/rec/1|title=Harry E. Davis, 1934|website=Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery}}</ref> He served both houses of the Ohio General Assembly.
He was born in Cleveland. He graduated from Western Reserve University Law School in 1908.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2011/02/harry_edward_davis_was_2nd_bla.html|title=Harry Edward Davis was 2nd black in Ohio Senate: Black History Month|first1=Diane|last1=Suchetka|work=The Plain Dealer|date=February 15, 2011}}</ref> He was first elected to represent Cuyahoga County in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1920 and served four terms.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/html/photo/p206.html|title=ohiohistory.org / The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 / Ohio House of Representatives Photograph Collection|website=dbs.ohiohistory.org|access-date=2021-04-27|archive-date=2021-04-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421115631/http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/html/photo/p206.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1947 and re-elected in 1953. He married Louise Wormley in 1917.<ref name=case>{{Cite web|url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/d/davis-harry-edward|title=DAVIS, HARRY EDWARD|date=April 12, 2019|website=Encyclopedia of Cleveland History |publisher=Case Western Reserve University}}</ref>
He was a Freemason and published ''Freemasonry Among Negroes in America'' in 1946.<ref name=bro/> Russell Howard Davis was his brother.<ref name=bro>{{Cite web|url=http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4031.xml;query=harry+edward+davis;brand=default|title=Finding aid for the Russell Howard Davis Papers|website=catalog.wrhs.org}}</ref>
Harry E. Davis Jr. High School was named in his honor in 1962.<ref name=case/>
==See also== *List of African-American officeholders (1900–1959)
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