Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — SENATOR DAVIS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SENATOR DAVIS.

Brought Into UnusuAl Prominence by Denouncing the Kyle Resolution. By his refusal to support Senator Kyle’s mail train resolution. Senator C. K. Davis, of Minnesota, became a

more than usually interesting personage. Senator Kyle’s resolution was (that interference (vith the transportation of the .United States mail only should he considered any offense against the laws of the United States. Cushman Kellogg Davis was born in Henderson, Ky., in

1838, received a common school education, and in 1857 was graduated from the University of Michigan. He is a lawyer by piofess'on. From 1862-’64 be was First Lieutenant of the 28th Wisconsin Infantry. He was a member of the Minnesota Legislature in 1867; was District Attorney of the State 1868-’73; was Governor 1874-’75. He took his seat in the United States Senate as a Republican March 4, 1887, and was reelected in 1893.

C. K. DAVIS.