DAVIS, CUSHMAN KELLOGG American political leader and lawyer, was born in Henderson, N.Y., on June 16, 1838. He was taken by his parents to Wisconsin Territory in the year of his birth, and was educated at Carroll college, Wau kesha, Wis., and at the University of Michigan, where he grad uated in 1857. After studying law he was admitted to the bar in 1860. During the Civil War he served as a first lieutenant in 1862-63 and in 1864 was an aide to Gen. Willis A. Gorman (1814 76). Resigning his commission in 1864, he settled in St. Paul, Minn., where he soon became prominent both at the bar and, as a Republican, in politics. He served in the State house of rep resentatives in 1867, and was U.S. district attorney for Minne sota (1868-73) . In 1874-76 he was governor of the State, and from 1887 until his death at St. Paul, Nov. 27, 1900, was a member of the U.S. Senate, where he was one of the acknowledged leaders of his party, an able and frequent speaker, and a com mittee worker of great industry. He was one of the peace com missioners who negotiated and signed the treaty of Paris by which the Spanish-American War was terminated. In addition to various speeches and public addresses, he published an essay entitled The Law of Shakespeare (1899).
See sketch by W. B. Chamberlain in Michigan Alumnus, vol. vii., pp. 0900.