Ewin L. Davis
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Ewin Lamar Davis was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 5th congressional district of Tennessee. He was born on February 5, 1876 in Bedford County, Tennessee. He attended the public schools, Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, Woolwine School in Tullahoma, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1895 to 1897. He graduated from Columbian (now The George Washington University Law School) at Washington, D.C. in 1899. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Tullahoma, Tennessee.
Ewin Davis was a delegate to all Democratic state conventions from 1900 to 1910. He was a judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Tennessee from 1910 to 1918. He was chairman of the district exemption board for the middle district of Tennessee in 1917 and 1918. He was the director of the Traders Natonal Bank of Tullahoma from 1903 to 1940. He was a trustee of the Tennessee College for Women from 1906 to 1939. He was also a member of the Federal Trade Commission from May 23, 1923 until his death, serving as chairman in 1935, 1940, and 1945. In 1936, he was a member of the American National Committee of the Third World Power Conference.
He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress and to the six succeeding Congresses. During the Seventy-second Congress, he was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. He served from March 4, 1919 until March 3, 1933. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932. He died in Washington, D.C. on October 23, 1949. He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery in Tullahoma, Tennessee.
This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
