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John Davis Funeral Set for Monday
John W. Davis 81 a veteran constitutional lawyer and 1924 Democratic Presidential nominee lay in state in Charleston S C He died Thursday after several days pneumonia Davis long career included ambassador to Great Britain 1918 two terms in Congress and as US solicitor general 1913 1918 He argued the South Carolina race case before the Supreme Court and represented steel interests in the 1952 steel seizure case Born Clarksburg West Virginia April 13 1873 he married Julia MacDonald in 1899 Funeral Monday at Brick Presbyterian Church New York with burial in Locust Valley Long Island
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Charleston
S. C
John W. Davis
Davis
Calvin Coolidge
Yeaman's Hall
Locust Valley
Long Island
Brick Presbyterian Church
New York
Great Britain
Woodrow Wilson
Bern
Switzerland
United States
Congress
West Virginia
Wilson
Williams Gibbs McAdoo
Alfred E. Smith
South Carolina
Supreme Court
Harry S. Truman
Steel
U. S. Supreme Court
Clarksburg
Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee's
Law School
Julia MacDonald