People/Characters David Davis
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![Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years [1-volume abridged edition]](https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/42/26/4226828-c-h200-w100-pv25_5977782f5141426b414d6741_v5.jpg)
- Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
- The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote
- The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote
- With Malice Toward None by Stephen B. Oates
- Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson
- Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
- American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies by Michael W. Kauffman
- Brother against Brother by William C. Davis
- Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years [1-volume abridged edition] by Carl Sandburg
- Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker
- We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald
- The Emancipator's Wife by Barbara Hambly
- Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America by Allen C. Guelzo
- Herndon's Life of Lincoln by William Henry Herndon
- A History of the Supreme Court by Bernard Schwartz
- Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Jr. Edward Steers
- All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class by Tim Shipman
- The Nation Reunited: War's Aftermath by Richard W. Murphy
- House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War by Stephen Berry
- Abraham Lincoln by George S. McGovern
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| Description | David Davis (March 9, 1815 – June 26, 1886) was a United States Senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention, engineering Lincoln's nomination alongside Ward Hill Lamon and Leonard Swett. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Da...)] 3. (Fictitious character) In Teresa Slack's Jenna's Creek series, David Davis is a retired judge. Before the series began, Davis presided over the trial of the accused killer of a child, Sally Blake. Thirtyyears later, someone comes forward claiming to have been an eyewitness, offering evidence to overturn the conviction. |