Henry Winter Davis (16 August 1817-30 December 1865) was a member of the US House of Representatives (KN-MD 4) from 4 March 1855 to 3 March 1861 (succeeding William Thomas Hamilton and preceding Henry May) and from MD-3 from 4 March 1863 to 3 March 1865 (succeeding Cornelius Leary and preceding Charles Edward Phelps).
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Henry Winter Davis was born in Annapolis, Maryland in 1817, the son of an Episcopalian clergyman and the cousin of David Davis, and he practiced law in Alexandria, Virginia from 1841 and Baltimore from 1850. He became known as an eloquent, if autocratic, orator, and he was a staunch abolitionist (despite owning inherited slaves) and Whig. After the demise of the Whig Party, he joined the Know Nothings and served in the US House of Representatives from 1855 to 1861; he became a Radical Republican in 1861, but, on returning to the House in 1863, he became a Unionist. He died in 1865.