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Document 148440 DAVID DAVIS Signed the day after it was decided that Hayes won the 1876 election, the day before Davis was sworn in as U.S. Senator. Signature: "The Autograph of/David Davis./Asso Jus. SC.US./Washington, DC/March 3, 1877", 7¼x5. From 1848 to 1862, David Davis (1815-1886) presided over the renowned eighth judicial circuit in Illinois, famous because Abraham Lincoln practiced in its courts. An intimate of Lincoln (they often bunked together when traveling the circuit), he successfully managed his friend's campaign to secure the Republican nomination for the presidency in Chicago in 1860. Davis was appointed by President Lincoln as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1862. In 1876, he was named a member of the Electoral Commission that would decide the winner of the presidential election. The commission consisted of five members of the House, five Senators and five Supreme Court Justices. There were seven Democrats and seven Republicans; Davis was the lone independent. Elected to the Senate in 1876, he announced his resignation from the Supreme Court and the commission. A Republican Associate Justice was chosen to replace him on the commission, which decided on March 2, 1877, by a vote along party lines (8-7), that Republican Hayes had defeated Democrat Tilden in the presidential election. Davis signed this page the day after Hayes was determined the victor, the day before he was sworn in as U.S. Senator. Note (unknown hand) on verso (no show through). Fine condition. SEE IF DOCUMENT 148440 IS FOR SALE RIGHT NOW!!
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