John W. Davis

(noun)

John William Davis (April 13, 1873 – March 24, 1955) was the Democratic Party candidate for president in 1924. He served as a United States Representative from West Virginia from 1911 to 1913, then as Solicitor General of the United States and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom under President Woodrow Wilson.

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Examples of John W. Davis in the following topics:

  • The Election of 1924

    • The Democratic Party candidate for president in 1924 was John W.
    • Davis, a little-known former congressman and diplomat from West Virginia.
    • In 12 states, the La Follette vote was greater than that cast for Davis.
    • Davis, running with Charles W.
    • John W.

  • Domestic Conservatism

    • The counterattack first came from conservative Democrats, led by presidential nominees John W.
    • Davis (1924) and Al Smith (1928), who mobilized businessmen into the American Liberty League.
    • Vice President John Nance Garner worked with congressional allies to prevent Roosevelt from packing the Supreme Court with six new judges, so the court would not rule New Deal legislation as unconstitutional.

  • Al Smith and the Election of 1928

    • He first sought the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination at the 1924 election but was one of a number of candidates eventually defeated by John W.
    • Davis, who went on to lose the general election to Republican Calvin Coolidge.
    • Hoover was the first of two presidents to redistribute his entire salary; John F.

  • References

    • Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
    • Davis, R.
    • W., Johnson, R.
    • W., & Johnson, R.
    • McKeachie, W.

  • The Rise of Independents

    • John Tyler was expelled from the Whig Party in September 1841 and remained effectively an Independent for the remainder of his presidency, later returning to the Democrats.
    • Recent prominent Independent candidates for president of the United States include John Anderson in 1980, Ross Perot in 1992, and Ralph Nader in the 2004 and 2008 elections.
    • Notable examples include David Davis of Illinois (a former Republican) in the nineteenth century, and Harry F.
    • Nebraska senator George W.

  • References

    • Brewer, E.W., Campbell, A.C., Petty, G.C. (2000).
    • Huitt, W., & Hummel, J. (1998).
    • Parkay, F.W. & Hass, G. (2000).
    • In John Martin Rich, ed., Readings in the Philosophy of Education.

  • A Multicultural Society

    • This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties. " —John Jay, First American Supreme Court Chief Justice, Federalist Paper No. 2
    • Philosophers, psychologists, historians, and early sociologists such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Santayana, Horace Kallen, John Dewey, W.
    • For example, in 2009 and 2010, controversy erupted in Texas as the state's curriculum committee made several changes to the state's school cirriculum requirements, often at the expense of minorities: juxtaposing Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address with that of Confederate president Jefferson Davis; debating removing Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and labor-leader César Chávez; and rejecting calls to include more Hispanic figures, in spite of the high Hispanic population in the state.

  • Bibliography

    • W.

  • The Confederacy's Defeat

    • John Richardson Liddell's troops some six hours later.
    • Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured on May 10 and the Confederate Departments of Florida and South Georgia, commanded by Confederate Major General Samuel Jones, surrendered the same day.
    • On May 10, 1865 Union cavalrymen captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis after he fled Richmond, Virginia, following its evacuation in the early part of April.
    • On May 5, 1865, in Washington, Georgia, Davis held the last meeting of his Cabinet.

  • Secession of the South

    • Declaring themselves the Confederate States of America, these seven states elected Jefferson Davis as their provisional president, declared Montgomery the nation's capital, and began raising an army.
    • Throughout the early years of the war, British foreign secretary Lord John Russell, Napoleon III of France, and other foreign leaders showed interest in recognizing the Confederacy, or at least a mediation in the war.
    • Davis became the provisional president of the Confederate States of America following secession.