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But Davis' second case\n         as Solicitor General made a strong argument against Oklahoma's\n         \"grandfather clause\" excluding blacks from voting (Guinn v.\n         United States). He spoke in defense of religious liberty in\n         the 1928 presidential campaign when candidate Al Smith was\n         attacked because of his Catholicism. In a 1931 pro bono case,\n         Davis defended a Yale divinity professor in a case (United\n         States v. Macintosh) that became a leading precedent in the\n         development of the law of conscientious objection. During the\n         Cold War, Davis was contemptuous of McCarthyite tactics. He\n         was involved both in the Alger Hiss case and in preparing the\n         appeal of J. Robert Oppenheimer to the Atomic Energy\n         Commission for security clearance.","Related Manuscript Collections\n          Researchers should note that the bulk of the papers\n               of John W. 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He remained loyal to\n         Washington and Lee and later served more that two decades on\n         its board of trustees.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDavis practiced law in Clarksburg from 1897 to 1913. During\n         this period he was active in West Virginia and national\n         Democratic politics. He was elected to the West Virginia House\n         of Delegates in 1899 and, from 1911-1913, he served in the\n         U.S. Congress. In 1912 he married Ellen G. Bassell. (He had\n         married Julia McDonald in 1899. She died in childbirth a year\n         later.) From 1913-1918 he served as U. S. Solicitor general.\n         In September 1918, Davis was one of the delegates to the\n         Berne, Switzerland conference on the treatment and exchange of\n         Prisoner. From 1918 until 1921 he was ambassador to Great\n         Britain. 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But Davis' second case\n         as Solicitor General made a strong argument against Oklahoma's\n         \"grandfather clause\" excluding blacks from voting (Guinn v.\n         United States). He spoke in defense of religious liberty in\n         the 1928 presidential campaign when candidate Al Smith was\n         attacked because of his Catholicism. In a 1931 pro bono case,\n         Davis defended a Yale divinity professor in a case (United\n         States v. Macintosh) that became a leading precedent in the\n         development of the law of conscientious objection. During the\n         Cold War, Davis was contemptuous of McCarthyite tactics. He\n         was involved both in the Alger Hiss case and in preparing the\n         appeal of J. Robert Oppenheimer to the Atomic Energy\n         Commission for security clearance.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Born in West Virginia in 1873, John William Davis went to\n         college and law school at Washington and Lee University taking\n         his LL.B degree in 1895. Having already read law for a year in\n         his father's office, Davis completed the law degree\n         requirements in nine months. After practicing for a year in\n         West Virginia, he accepted a position as the third member of\n         the expanded law faculty at Washington and Lee. During the\n         1897 school year, Dean John Randolph Tucker died and Davis had\n         to take on the additional load of teaching Tucker's classes.\n         Though tempted to stay on at Washington and Lee under the\n         leadership of the new president, William L. Wilson, Davis\n         chose the \"rough \u0026 tumble\" of private practice. Two years\n         later, when Professor Charles Graves left Washington and Lee\n         to accept a chair at the University of Virginia, he was again\n         invited to join the permanent faculty. Davis again selected\n         private practice over teaching. He remained loyal to\n         Washington and Lee and later served more that two decades on\n         its board of trustees.","Davis practiced law in Clarksburg from 1897 to 1913. During\n         this period he was active in West Virginia and national\n         Democratic politics. He was elected to the West Virginia House\n         of Delegates in 1899 and, from 1911-1913, he served in the\n         U.S. Congress. In 1912 he married Ellen G. Bassell. (He had\n         married Julia McDonald in 1899. She died in childbirth a year\n         later.) From 1913-1918 he served as U. S. 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By his death in 1955 he had made 139 oral\n         arguments before the Supreme Court, at the time a 20th century\n         record. Davis was honored in his lifetime by fourteen honorary\n         doctorates. Felix Frankfurter, Learned Hand, and Hugo Black,\n         among others, deemed him one of the two or three finest\n         advocates of the century.","Davis' lifelong fidelity to the conservative legal\n         principles espoused by his father and by the Washington and\n         Lee law faculty at the time he was a student make for a\n         seemingly inconsistent record of advocacy. He may be best\n         remembered for successfully defending the steel industry\n         against government seizure during the Korean War, and for\n         unsuccessfully arguing South Carolina's case for maintaining\n         segregated schools in the school desegregation cases now known\n         jointly as Brown v. Board of Education. But Davis' second case\n         as Solicitor General made a strong argument against Oklahoma's\n         \"grandfather clause\" excluding blacks from voting (Guinn v.\n         United States). He spoke in defense of religious liberty in\n         the 1928 presidential campaign when candidate Al Smith was\n         attacked because of his Catholicism. In a 1931 pro bono case,\n         Davis defended a Yale divinity professor in a case (United\n         States v. Macintosh) that became a leading precedent in the\n         development of the law of conscientious objection. During the\n         Cold War, Davis was contemptuous of McCarthyite tactics. He\n         was involved both in the Alger Hiss case and in preparing the\n         appeal of J. Robert Oppenheimer to the Atomic Energy\n         Commission for security clearance."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn W. 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But Davis' second case\n         as Solicitor General made a strong argument against Oklahoma's\n         \"grandfather clause\" excluding blacks from voting (Guinn v.\n         United States). He spoke in defense of religious liberty in\n         the 1928 presidential campaign when candidate Al Smith was\n         attacked because of his Catholicism. In a 1931 pro bono case,\n         Davis defended a Yale divinity professor in a case (United\n         States v. Macintosh) that became a leading precedent in the\n         development of the law of conscientious objection. During the\n         Cold War, Davis was contemptuous of McCarthyite tactics. He\n         was involved both in the Alger Hiss case and in preparing the\n         appeal of J. 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By his death in 1955 he had made 139 oral\n         arguments before the Supreme Court, at the time a 20th century\n         record. Davis was honored in his lifetime by fourteen honorary\n         doctorates. Felix Frankfurter, Learned Hand, and Hugo Black,\n         among others, deemed him one of the two or three finest\n         advocates of the century.","Davis' lifelong fidelity to the conservative legal\n         principles espoused by his father and by the Washington and\n         Lee law faculty at the time he was a student make for a\n         seemingly inconsistent record of advocacy. He may be best\n         remembered for successfully defending the steel industry\n         against government seizure during the Korean War, and for\n         unsuccessfully arguing South Carolina's case for maintaining\n         segregated schools in the school desegregation cases now known\n         jointly as Brown v. Board of Education. But Davis' second case\n         as Solicitor General made a strong argument against Oklahoma's\n         \"grandfather clause\" excluding blacks from voting (Guinn v.\n         United States). He spoke in defense of religious liberty in\n         the 1928 presidential campaign when candidate Al Smith was\n         attacked because of his Catholicism. In a 1931 pro bono case,\n         Davis defended a Yale divinity professor in a case (United\n         States v. Macintosh) that became a leading precedent in the\n         development of the law of conscientious objection. During the\n         Cold War, Davis was contemptuous of McCarthyite tactics. He\n         was involved both in the Alger Hiss case and in preparing the\n         appeal of J. Robert Oppenheimer to the Atomic Energy\n         Commission for security clearance."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn W. 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These include a speech typescript, his\n               original law license, correspondence and asset\n               statements. The papers of the parents of John W. Davis,\n               John J. Davis and Julia McDonald Davis, are held by West\n               Virginia University.","Related Printed Materials: John W. Davis \"Cases\n               and Points\"\n          Davis' law firm, Davis, Polk \u0026 Wardwell, at an\n               unrecorded date, donated c. 50 linear feet of court\n               reports and other printed records of cases in which\n               Davis participated. These had been specially bound and\n               titled \"Cases and Points.\" A shelf list of these volumes\n               is available at the repository."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eTwenty one books belonging to John W. Davis were\n            donated with this material. All of these books are\n            housed in the law library Rare Book Room. 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Wilson, Davis\n         chose the \"rough \u0026 tumble\" of private practice. Two years\n         later, when Professor Charles Graves left Washington and Lee\n         to accept a chair at the University of Virginia, he was again\n         invited to join the permanent faculty. Davis again selected\n         private practice over teaching. He remained loyal to\n         Washington and Lee and later served more that two decades on\n         its board of trustees.","Davis practiced law in Clarksburg from 1897 to 1913. During\n         this period he was active in West Virginia and national\n         Democratic politics. He was elected to the West Virginia House\n         of Delegates in 1899 and, from 1911-1913, he served in the\n         U.S. Congress. In 1912 he married Ellen G. Bassell. (He had\n         married Julia McDonald in 1899. She died in childbirth a year\n         later.) From 1913-1918 he served as U. S. 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But Davis' second case\n         as Solicitor General made a strong argument against Oklahoma's\n         \"grandfather clause\" excluding blacks from voting (Guinn v.\n         United States). He spoke in defense of religious liberty in\n         the 1928 presidential campaign when candidate Al Smith was\n         attacked because of his Catholicism. In a 1931 pro bono case,\n         Davis defended a Yale divinity professor in a case (United\n         States v. Macintosh) that became a leading precedent in the\n         development of the law of conscientious objection. During the\n         Cold War, Davis was contemptuous of McCarthyite tactics. He\n         was involved both in the Alger Hiss case and in preparing the\n         appeal of J. 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But Davis' second case\n         as Solicitor General made a strong argument against Oklahoma's\n         \"grandfather clause\" excluding blacks from voting (Guinn v.\n         United States). He spoke in defense of religious liberty in\n         the 1928 presidential campaign when candidate Al Smith was\n         attacked because of his Catholicism. In a 1931 pro bono case,\n         Davis defended a Yale divinity professor in a case (United\n         States v. Macintosh) that became a leading precedent in the\n         development of the law of conscientious objection. During the\n         Cold War, Davis was contemptuous of McCarthyite tactics. He\n         was involved both in the Alger Hiss case and in preparing the\n         appeal of J. Robert Oppenheimer to the Atomic Energy\n         Commission for security clearance."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn W. 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