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Two years later, when Professor Charles Graves left Washington and Lee to accept a chair at the University of Virginia, he was again invited to join the permanent faculty. Davis again selected private practice over teaching. He remained loyal to Washington and Lee and later served more that two decades on its board of trustees. Davis practiced law in Clarksburg from 1897 to 1913. During this period he was active in West Virginia and national Democratic politics. He was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1899 and, from 1911-1913, he served in the U.S. Congress. In 1912 he married Ellen G. Bassell. (He had married Julia McDonald in 1899. She died in childbirth a year later.) From 1913-1918 he served as U. S. Solicitor general. In September 1918, Davis was one of the delegates to the Berne, Switzerland conference on the treatment and exchange of Prisoner. From 1918 until 1921 he was ambassador to Great Britain. In 1921 Davis moved from London to New York to become head of the prominent Wall Street law firm Davis, Polk and Wardwell. Clients included J. P. Morgan and Company, and U. S. Steel. In 1922, the same year he served as president of the American Bar Association, Davis rejected appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court. In 1924 he became the Democratic nominee for president. He waged a conservative, high-minded and losing campaign against Calvin Coolidge. He left the political arena, only reemerging briefly in the 1930's as an organizer of the anti-New Deal Liberty league. For the rest of his career, he devoted himself to his private practice. By his death in 1955 he had made 139 oral arguments before the Supreme Court, at the time a 20th century record. Davis was honored in his lifetime by fourteen honorary doctorates. Felix Frankfurter, Learned Hand, and Hugo Black, among others, deemed him one of the two or three finest advocates of the century. 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Davis and Julia McDonald Davis, are held by West Virginia University. Related Printed Materials: John W. Davis 'Cases and Points' Davis' law firm, Davis, Polk \u0026 Wardwell, at an unrecorded date, donated c. 50 linear feet of court reports and other printed records of cases in which Davis participated. These had been specially bound and titled 'Cases and Points.' A shelf list of these volumes is available at the repository.","Researchers should note that the bulk of the papers of John W. Davis are held by Yale University Libraries. (Washington and Lee University School of Law Library holds a copy of the microfilm edition of this Yale collection. The film is housed in the microforms area of the law library Main Reading Room.) The Special Collections division of Washington and Lee University Leyburn Library also holds a small collection of Davis materials. These include a speech typescript, his original law license, correspondence and asset statements. The papers of the parents of John W. Davis, John J. Davis and Julia McDonald Davis, are held by West Virginia University.","Davis' law firm, Davis, Polk \u0026 Wardwell, at an unrecorded date, donated c. 50 linear feet of court reports and other printed records of cases in which Davis participated. These had been specially bound and titled 'Cases and Points.' A shelf list of these volumes is available at the repository.","Related Manuscript Collections Researchers should note that the bulk of the papers of John W. Davis are held by Yale University Libraries. (Washington and Lee University School of Law Library holds a copy of the microfilm edition of this Yale collection. The film is housed in the microforms area of the law library Main Reading Room.) The Special Collections division of Washington and Lee University Leyburn Library also holds a small collection of Davis materials. These include a speech typescript, his original law license, correspondence and asset statements. 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