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Senate Years of Service: 1930-1945 Party: Republican
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DAVIS, James John, a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in Tredegar, South Wales, October 27, 1873;
immigrated to the United States in 1881 with his parents, who settled in Pittsburgh, Pa., and later
moved to Sharon, Pa.; attended the public schools and Sharon (Pa.) Business College; apprenticed as
a puddler in the steel industry when 11 years of age; moved to Elwood, Ind., in 1893 and worked in
steel and tin-plate mills; held various offices in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin
Workers of America; city clerk of Elwood, Ind., 1898-1902; recorder of Madison County, Ind.,
1903-1907; moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1907, and engaged in organizational work for the Loyal
Order of Moose; chairman of the Loyal Order of Moose War Relief Commission in 1918 and visited
the various camps in the United States, Canada, and Europe; appointed Secretary of Labor by
President Warren Harding and reappointed by Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover
1921-1930, when he resigned, having been elected Senator; elected on November 4, 1930, as a
Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the refusal of the Senate to seat
William S.Vare; reelected in 1932 and 1938, and served from December 2, 1930, to January 3,
1945; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944; resumed educational and organizational work for
the Loyal Order of Moose; died in Takoma Park, Md., November 22, 1947; interment in Uniondale
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
Chapple, Joseph. Our Jim: A Biography of James Davis. Boston: Chapple
Publishing Co., 1928; Davis, James John. The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills
and What Came of It. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1922.
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