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George Davis (American politician)

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portrait preserved here, but few have been more worthy of it than the most illustrious son of the Cape Fear, whose memory is an inheritance of the State and whose career and walk in life present a study at once attractive and profitable. Davis was a thorough Carolinian - the evolution of conditions on the Cape Fear River.
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Chief Justice CLARK said: North Carolina and our profession will always revere the memory of Mr. Davis. He was a lawyer of the highest ability, a patriot without personal ends to serve, and a citizen whose character was without spot. His portrait is most welcome to these halls, and the Marshal will
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As the Confederate Supreme Court was never created, there was little for the attorney general to do other than to attend cabinet meetings, complete any advisory tasks assigned by Jefferson Davis, and to draft legal guidance for other cabinet members based on the thin book of Confederate statutes.
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I have been asked by the family of George Davis to present his portrait to the Supreme Court and to request that it may take its place on your walls in company with those of the other distinguished men who have adorned the Bench and Bar of this high Court. As great as the honor is to have one's
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On June 25, 2020, the statue, but not its pedestal, was temporarily removed by the City of Wilmington coincident with the firing of three police officers the city said had participated in "brutally racist" discussions recorded on official police equipment. To justify the dismantling, the city
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Pro-slavery North Carolina elites declared secession from the Union on May 20, 1861. The state's formal involvement with the confederate government began. Soon after, North Carolina secessionists placed Davis on a slate from which he was chosen a delegate to the
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Davis reacted negatively to constitutional amendment proposals that would have preserved slavery where it existed but prohibited slavery in any territory of the United States "now held, or hereafter acquired" north of the latitude 36 degrees, 30 minutes line.
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During the court's Fall Term of 1915, his family presented a portrait of George Davis to hang in the library of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. All other portraits in the court's collection are of justices of the court.
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We could never accept the plan adopted by the Convention as consistent with the rights, the interests, or the dignity of North Carolina ... The division must be made on the line of slavery. The state must go with the South.
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The monument shows Davis, hand on lectern, giving a speech. Its stone base includes a spurious encomium to Davis's supposed virtue, not dissimilar from the Lost Cause memorial speeches given about him during the era.
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government cited the public safety exception within the state law intended to frustrate the removal of confederate monuments in North Carolina. The city did not announce a place of storage or a date for re-erection.
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A skilled orator, he gave a notable public speech in March 1861 in which he argued that North Carolina should secede from the United States of America to protect the private economic interest in chattel slavery.
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On March 2, 1861 — just days after returning to Wilmington from the peace conference — Davis made a public speech in which he spoke of North Carolina's requirement to secede.
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On August 2, 2021, the City Council approved an agreement with Cape Fear 3, United Daughters of the Confederacy to permanently remove the monument from public land.
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Historians have stated that similar monuments are evidence of a wide effort by the UDC and others, long after the failure of the Confederacy, to insert the false
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After his death, white Wilmington elites and leaders of the state's legal profession began to lionize Davis as an example of perfect white Southern manhood.
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In 1949, the North Carolina state government placed a highway historical marker regarding Davis on US Highway 17 at Porters Neck Road near Wilmington.:
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offered Davis the chief justiceship of the state supreme court, but Davis turned it down on the grounds that he could not live on the salary.
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He made clear publicly that he was a secessionist. Secession, he said, was required to protect the economic interests of North Carolina:
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Indeed, his very handwriting was an index of that characteristic, every letter being perfectly formed, and his writing without blemish.
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described Davis as a man without a single character fault or sin — even extending his over-the-top praise to Davis' handwriting:
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Edwin Anderson Alderman; Joel Chandler Harris; Charles W. Kent; Charles Alphonso Smith; Lucian Lamar Knight (1909).
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The duties of Confederate attorney general were minimal and notably did not involve any part of military affairs.
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Davis returned to Wilmington. He rebuilt his law practice and worked as a railroad counsel. Davis married
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and his personal policies of white supremacy and administrative obstruction of Congress's program of
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Later that autumn, the North Carolina General Assembly passed over Davis for reelection, selecting
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and was valedictorian of its Class of 1838. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840.
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Offers of public service were made to him before and after the war, but he refused them all.
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As the Confederacy collapsed, George Davis accompanied the fugitive government as far as
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George Davis resigned the senate and then held the cabinet post from January 2, 1864.
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My ambition went down with the banner of the South, and, like it, never rose again.
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George Davis never held any office under the flag of the United States of America.
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Despite Davis's real history as a pro-Union Whig and as a footnote figure in the
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Davis then, traveling alone, attempted to flee to England by way of Florida and
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monument to Davis was dedicated in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina, by the
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He gave his last public speech in 1889, at a memorial event in Wilmington for
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Deputies and delegates to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States
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For example, during a speech upon the presentation of his portrait to the
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until being given his parole by President Johnson on January 2, 1866.
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into the cultural memory, announce to nonwhites the final defeat of
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George Davis Monument in Wilmington, NC, before the statue's removal
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for 1861-1862. Later, Davis was elected to a two-year term in the
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After his death in 1896, his remains were buried in Wilmington's
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Davis served in the post until his resignation soon after the
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hang it in its appropriate place in the Library of the Court.
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The marker includes the revisionist Lost Cause inscription —
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Burials at Oakdale Cemetery (Wilmington, North Carolina)
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Confederate States Senator (Class 1) from North Carolina
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ahead of his senate term's end on February 17, 1864.
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To keep George Davis in the failing rump government,
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Index

George Davis (Confederate States politician)
George Davis

Confederate States Attorney General
Jefferson Davis
Wade Keyes
Confederate States Senator
North Carolina
Edwin Godwin Reade
Wilmington, North Carolina
Whig Party (until 1856)
Constitutional Union Party (1860)
Alma mater
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Confederate
attorney general of the Confederate States
slave operated plantation
Porters Neck
Wilmington, North Carolina
University of North Carolina
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
Whig
Constitutional Union Party
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Washington Peace Conference
Provisional Confederate Congress
Senate
Mary Adelaide Polk Davis

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