OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
John Wesley Davis 

BORN:
April 16, 1799
New Holland, Pennsylvania

DIED:
August 22, 1859 (age 60)
Carlisle, Indiana

EDUCATION:
Baltimore Medical College (1821)

POLITICAL PARTIES: 
Democrat
Jacksonian 

HIGHLIGHTS:
1823:
Moved to Carlisle, Indiana,
Practiced Medicine 
1829-1831:
Surrogate of Sullivan County. Indiana
1831-1833:
Member of the Indiana House of Representatives
1831:
Speaker, Indiana House of Representatives 
1836:
Commissioner to Negotiate and Indian Treaty 
1835-1837:
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana 
Jacksonian
1839-1841:
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana 
1841-1843:
Member of the Indiana House of Representatives
1841:
Speaker, Indiana House of Representatives 
1839-1841:
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana,
Democrat
1845-1847:
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
1848-1851:
U.S. Commissioner to China
1851, 1852, 1857:
Speaker, Indiana House of Representatives 
1852;
 Delegate to the Democratic National Convention
1853-1854:
Governor of the Oregon Territory
1858:
Member of the Board of Visitors, U.S. Military Academy at West Point  

SOURCES:
U.S. House of Representatives
Biographical Directory of Congress
Wikipedia

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