The New Student's Reference Work/Davis, Cushman Kellogg

Davis, Cushman Kellogg, late United States senator for Minnesota, was born at Henderson, N. Y., June 16, 1838; and died at St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 27, 1900.  Graduating at the University of Michigan, he studied law and practiced in Wisconsin, joining one of its infantry-regiments at the outbreak of the Civil War as lieutenant.  In 1867 he was elected to the Minnesota legislature, and in 1868 became United States district-attorney for his state, and then governor (1874–75).  In 1887 he took his seat in the United States senate, where he served until his death.  He long served as chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations, one of whose acts was to declare war against Spain in 1898; and later was a member of the peace-commission to Paris.  He was the author of The Law in Shakespeare.