Terms of Service

• House, 28th Legislature
  1/13/1903 - 1/10/1905
  Democrat
  

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. J.W. Davis, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• John Westley Davis, birth date 7/26/1842 in Mississippi; death date 5/1/1912 in Brownwood, Brown County, Texas; lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
• John Wesley Davis, United Confederate Veterans, birth date 7/26/1843, death date 5/1/1912, burial in Greenleaf Cemetery, Brownwood, Brown County. Includes photo and reprint of Brownwood Bulletin, 8/26/1909. Find a Grave .
• Biographical sketch and photo, "Sketches of Prominent Veterans: Members of Camp Stonewall Jackson Who Are in Attendance Upon the Reunion This Week," Daily Bulletin (Brownwood), 8/26/1909, p. 7, crediting Howard Payne University Library. "He came to Brown county in 1899, locating at Blanket, and has since served the people of this county in the Texas Legislature." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
• Confederate States Army, Company E, 10th Texas Cavalry. Biographical sketch, J.W. Davis, "Sketches of Prominent Veterans: Members of Camp Stonewall Jackson Who Are in Attendance Upon the Reunion This Week," Daily Bulletin (Brownwood), 8/26/1909, p. 7, crediting the Howard Payne University Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
• Confederate States Army service, biographical sketch, John Wesley Davis, Brownwood, Texas. Born 7/26/1843 near Aberdeen, Mississippi. Yeary, Mamie, 1876-. Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861-1865, 1912, pp. 177-178. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
• 28th Legislature (1903) - J.W. Davis, postoffice Blanket, nativity Mississippi, age 59 (born circa 1844), attorney-at-law, Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual .

Committee Information

• 28th R.S. - 1903
• Judicial Districts  
• Public Lands and Land Office  
• Stock and Stock Raising