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David Davis (Tennessee politician)
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| David Davis | |
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| Assumed office January 4, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Bill Jenkins |
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| Succeeded by | Incumbent |
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| Born | November 06, 1959 Unicoi, Tennessee |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Joyce Davis |
| Children | Matthew and Rachel |
| Religion | Baptist |
David Lee Davis (born November 6, 1959) is a Republican politician from Tennessee and a former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing the 6th district, which is composed of parts of Sullivan County, Washington County and Hawkins County. He is currently serving as U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 1st congressional district, a seat the Democratic Party (United States) has not held since the late 1800s.
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David Davis obtained a 13 week certification in respiratory therapy from East Tennessee State University in 1979 and received a correspondence A.A.S. in respiratory therapy from California College[1][2] in 1983. In 1991, he received a B.S. in Organizational Management from Milligan College. He is currently president of Shared Health Services, Inc. and the former president of Advanced Home Health Care, Inc.[3]
While Davis has only filed two bills within the U.S. House of Representatives as the original sponsor (one Davis bill was to create a federal "American Eagle Day"), he has signed on as cosponsor to other pending legislation including H.R.621, a House resolution that seeks to "...amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to restore the Medicare treatment of ownership of oxygen equipment to that in effect before enactment of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005."[4]
In 2007, U.S. Rep.Davis also cosponsored H.R.1398 to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 by providing that manure shall not be considered to be a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.[5] H.R. 1398 has been referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Chief of Staff: Brenda Otterson
- Scheduler: Karen Kaumeier
- Legislative Director: Richard Vaughn
- Press Secretary: Timothy Hill (brother of Tennessee State Representative Matthew Hill)
Davis was elected to the 101st General Assembly representing parts of Washington County, Tennessee and Hawkins County, Tennessee. Davis was a member of the Transportation Committee, the Government Operations Committee, and the Public Safety and Rural Roads Subcommittee while serving with the Tennessee General Assembly.
Davis was also a delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business.
While in the Tennessee General Assembly, Davis voted aye twice in transportation committee to allow illegal immigrants to apply for Tennessee driver licenses (2001 H.B. 983)[6] and also filed legislation on February 3, 2005 (2005 H.B 714)[7] for changing county wheel tax legislation that (if enacted) would have taken away the ability of Tennessee citizens to vote aye or nay on local wheel tax referendum questions and give Tennessee county commissioners the sole authority to enact wheel taxes with a simple majority vote.
In 2006, Davis ran to replace retiring Bill Jenkins, a Republican who had represented the Tennessee 1st U.S. House District. In May, Davis appointed then Leitner Pharmaceuticals lobbyist (and former King Pharmaceuticals lobbyist) James "Jim" L. Holcomb, who was also the treasurer of the Tennessee Conservative PAC, [8][9] as his campaign co-chairman.[10].
Davis finished first in the strongly contested Republican primary, with 22 percent of the vote. The second-place finisher, Richard Venable, received only 576 less votes.
Tennessee law authorizes a recount in the case of a tie vote, an indication of voter fraud, voting machine malfunctions or tabulation problems, and for "any other instance the court or body with jurisdiction of a contested election finds that a recount is warranted." Veneable reportedly had sought a recount because "less that seven-tenths of one percent" of the primary votes determined the outcome of the election and because in Sullivan County long lines at polling places had reportedly discouraged voters.[11] The Tennessee Republican Party Primary Board decided not to have a recount.[12]
In the general election, Davis defeated his Democratic opponent, City Councilman Rick Trent of Morristown, Tennessee.[13]
- ^ Maric College, Modesto Campus Moves To New Facility On June 7
- ^ Maric College — Health Care
- ^ Tennessee Blue Book, 102nd & 103rd General Assemblies — David Davis, bio.PDF (1.21 MiB)
- ^ http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/R?d110:FLD004:@1(Rep+Davis+David%20%20):')
- ^ The Library of Congress — Thomas Search. Legislation sponsored/cosponsored by David Davis.
- ^ 102nd General Assembly Archives — HB0983PDF (6.05 KiB)
- ^ 104th General Assembly Archives — HB0714PDF (36.2 KiB)
- ^ http://www.tennesseeconservative.org/bio_Holcomb.php
- ^ http://www.tennessean.com/government/archives/05/03/67699687.shtml?Element_ID=67699687
- ^ http://www.rightforcongress.com/releases/release/3016723/9962.htm
- ^ "Venable seeks recount in GOP congressional primary". Kingsport Time-News. Hank Hayes. August 21, 2006.
- ^ Denial clears the way for David Davis to be the official GOP nominee in the November congressional election. August 24, 2006.
- ^ Trent confident of success in race against Davis. Johnson City Press. August 5, 2006. p.5a
- Tennessee Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey
- Tennessee Senator Rusty Crowe
- Tennessee Representative Jason Mumpower
- Sullivan County, Tennessee Mayor Steve Godsey
- Tennessee Representative Matthew Hill
- USA Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia
- Rhône-Poulenc
- Hoechst AG
- Altace
- EDGAR
- U.S. Congressman David Davis, U.S. House site
- David Davis's biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- David Davis's voting record maintained by The Washington Post
- David Davis's campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
- David Davis's campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org
- David Davis's biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
- David Davis's issue positions and quotes at On The Issues
- David Davis's profile at the Tennessee General Assembly website
- Search the Tennessee Online Campaign Finance Database for records filed by Davis
- David Davis for U.S. Congress, Campaign site
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| Preceded by William L. Jenkins |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 1st congressional district 2007 – present |
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| Senators | Lamar Alexander (R), Bob Corker (R) |
| Representative(s) | David Davis (R), Jimmy Duncan (R), Zach Wamp (R), Lincoln Davis (D), Jim Cooper (D), Bart Gordon (D), Marsha Blackburn (R), John Tanner (D), Steve Cohen (D) |
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