Robert Charles Davey (October 22, 1853 – December 26, 1908) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Davey attended the public schools, and was graduated from St. Vincent's College,

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, in 1871. He engaged in mercantile pursuits. Davey was elected to the

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in 1879, 1884, and again in 1892. He served as president pro tempore of the senate during the sessions of 1884 and 1886. He served as judge of the first recorder's court in New Orleans 1880-1888. He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of New Orleans in 1888. Davey was elected as a

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to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1894. Davey was elected to the Fifty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until his death. Had been reelected to the Sixty-first Congress, but died in

, December 26, 1908, before the close of the Sixtieth Congress. He was interred in Metairie Cemetery.

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Robert C. Davey, late a Representative from Louisiana, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1911
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