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"Born
in Brookline, December II, 1798; died November 22, 1845; served during 1845.
He was a candidate of a new
political organization called the "Native American Party"; meanwhile
Josiah Quincy, Jr., was the candidate of the Whigs, and Adam W. Thaxter,
Jr., the democratic candidate.
It was not until a ballot
taken on February 21, 1845, after two unsuccessful attempts, that Davis
received a bare majority and was elected. In his inaugural, he took pains to
explain the objects of the Native American Party, which, he said, were not
to create animosity between the native born and foreign born, but 'to place
our free institutions upon such a basis that those who come after
us, the descendants both of the
foreign and of the American citizens, may be free and independent.'
No event of importance happened under
Mayor Davis' short administration. He sent in his resignation owing to ill
health after having served about seven months. It was not accepted, and he
was nominally at the head of city affairs until he died in November, 1845."
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