Warren Ransom Davis (May 8, 1793 – January 29, 1835) was an American attorney and

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from

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from 1827-35. Davis was born in

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, pursued preparatory studies and graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina Columbia) in 1810, where he was a member of the

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. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1814, practicing in Pendleton. He later served as state solicitor of the western circuit from 1818 to 1824. Davis was elected as a Jacksonian to the

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and 21st Congresses, reelected as a Nullifier to the 22nd through 24th Congresses and served from March 4, 1827, until his death in Washington, D.C., on January 29, 1835, before the opening of the 24th Congress. During the 22nd Congress he was chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. On the day after his death, his funeral was disrupted by an assassination attempt on

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by a deranged house painter, Richard Lawrence. Davis is interred in the

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.https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/12008

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