Robert T. Davis

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name=Robert Thompson Davis | image=Robert Thompson Davis (1823–1906).png | state=[[Massachusetts]] | district=[[Massachusetts's 1st congressional district|1st]] | term= March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1889 | preceded=[[William W. Crapo]] | succeeded=[[Charles S. Randall]] | office2 =8th [[List of mayors of Fall River, Massachusetts|Mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts]] | term_start3 = 1873 | term_end3 = 1874 | preceded3 =Samuel M. Brown | succeeded3 = James F. Davenport | birth_date={{Birth date|1823|8|28|mf=y}} | birth_place=[[County Down]], [[Ireland]] | death_date={{death date and age|1906|10|29|1823|8|28|mf=y}} | death_place=[[Fall River, Massachusetts]], U.S. | spouse= {{Plainlist| * {{Marriage|Sarah C. Wilbur|1848|1856|end=d.}} * {{Marriage|Susan A. Haight|1862}} }} | profession= Physician | alma_mater = [[Harvard Medical School]] | party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | signature = Signature of Robert Thompson Davis (1823–1906).png }}

'''Robert Thompson Davis''' (August 28, 1823 – October 29, 1906) was an American physician and politician. He was a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from [[Massachusetts]], and served as Mayor of [[Fall River, Massachusetts|Fall River]] from 1873 to 1874.

==Biography== Robert T. Davis was born in [[County Down]], Ireland on August 28, 1823. His family emigrated to the United States when he was three years old.<ref name=Progress>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/menofprogressone00her/page/379 |title=Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |editor-last=Bacon |editor-first=Edwin M. |editor-link=Edwin Munroe Bacon |publisher=[[The New England Magazine]] |location=Boston |pages=379–380 |year=1896 |access-date=2022-01-21 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

He graduated from [[Harvard Medical School]] in 1848, and practiced medicine in [[Waterville, Maine]] for three years, before moving to [[Fall River, Massachusetts]].<ref name=Progress/>

He married Sarah C. Wilbur in 1848. She died in 1856, and he remarried to Susan A. Haight in 1862. They had one child.<ref name=Progress/>

Davis died at his home in Fall River on October 29, 1906.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93117441/dr-r-t-davis-dead/ |title=Dr. R. T. Davis Dead |newspaper=Fall River Daily Globe |page=1 |date=1906-10-30 |access-date=2022-01-21 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He is interred in [[Oak Grove Cemetery (Fall River)|Oak Grove Cemetery]].

==References== {{Reflist}} {{CongBio|D000130}}

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