RARE \"Virginia Congressman\" Thomas Davenport Clipped Signature For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "Virginia Congressman" Thomas Davenport Clipped Signature.

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Thomas Davenport (died

November 17, 1838) was Born in Halifax County, Virginia, where his parents were living by

1783, Davenport completed preparatory studies and received a license to operate

as a merchant in Meadville, Virginia. He was a captain in the county militia

during the War of 1812. Davenport was

elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through the Twenty-second Congresses

and elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4,

1825 – March 3, 1835). He chaired the Committee on Public Expenditures

(Twenty-third Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in

1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress. He died near Meadville, on November 17,

1838.