Webster Davis (1 June 1861-22 February 1923) was the Republican Mayor of Kansas City from 1894 to 1896, succeeding William S. Cowherd and preceding James M. Jones.
Biography[]
Webster Davis was born in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania in 1861, and he was raised in Chillicothe, Missouri and in Gallatin before becoming a lamplighter in Lake Forest, Illinois and a shoemaker and clerk in Gallatin. He became a lawyer in Garden City, Kansas in 1884 and went on to move to Kansas City, serving as Mayor from 1894 to 1896 and as an assistant Secretary of the Interior in 1897. After failing to persuade the United States government to support the Boers during the Second Boer War, Davis became a Democrat, and he died in 1923.