Lincoln Davis
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Lincoln Davis (born September 13, 1943) is a U.S. Representative from Tennessee, currently representing the state's 4th Congressional district (map (http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/tn04_109.gif)).
Davis, a 1966 Tennessee Technological University agriculture graduate who was raised in rural Fentress County, has been serving Tennesseans since being elected as mayor of Byrdstown in 1978. Davis served two terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives, 1980-1984, and was later elected to two terms in the Tennessee State Senate, 1996-2002, resigning from that body midway through his second term when he was elected to represent the state’s Fourth Congressional District in November 2002, defeating Tullahoma city councillor Janice Bowling. Bowling was again his opponent in 2004, when he defeated her by a slightly larger margin.
Davis has been recognized as a leader in the fight to allocate more federal money toward the cleanup of Tennessee’s abandoned coal mines, particularly in the Cumberland Plateau region, which lies partly in his district. He also recently joined Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas to co-sponsor homeland security legislation to crack down on immigrants who overstay their visas.
In the state legislature, Davis supported state employee and teacher pay raises, long-term care for senior citizens, character education in schools and new domestic violence legislation. Davis initiated and fought for a bill requiring counseling and a 12-hour holding period for domestic violence offenders.
Davis holds membership in the House Committee on Science, the House Committee on Agriculture and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. He is a member of several caucuses, including the Congressional Caucus to Control Methamphetamine and the Congressional Rural Caucus.
Davis would be considered a political moderate by Tennessee standards but would be considered quite conservative by national ones, especially for a Democrat. He is endorsed by right-to-life groups, the National Rifle Association, and the Tennessee Conservative Union, groups all more frequently associated with Republicans. He has also publicly stated that he is totally opposed to the idea of gay marriage.
Davis, who now lives lives in the rural Fentress County village of Pall Mall, also owns a construction business, Diversified Construction Co., which builds homes, apartments and offices. Davis and his wife Lynda, an elementary school teacher, have three daughters, Larissa, Lynn and Libby, and five grandchildren, Ashton, Alexia, Andrew, Austin and Adam.
External links
- US Congress biography (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000599)
- Personal biography (http://www.house.gov/lincolndavis/biography.htm)Template:TN-FedRep