Garrett Davis (10 September 1801 – 22 September 1872) was a member of the US House of Representatives (W-KY 12) from 4 March 1839 to 3 March 1843 (succeeding John Chambers) and from KY 8 from 4 March 1843 to 3 March 1847 (succeeding James Sprigg and preceding Charles S. Morehead), and a US Senator (D) from 10 December 1861 to 22 September 1872 (succeeding John C. Breckinridge and preceidng Willis B. Machen).
Biography[]
Garrett Davis was born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky in 1801, the brother of congressman Amos Davis. He became a lawyer in Paris, Kentucky in 1823, and he served in the state legislature during the 1830s as a Whig. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1839 to 1847, and he declined the Whig nomination for Lieutenant Governor in 1848 and the Know Nothings nomination for Governor in 1855 and for the presidency in 1856. He was opposed to secession, and he became a member of the Constitutional Union Party, serving in the US Senate from 1861 until his death in 1872.