Davis Elkins

Davis Elkins
United States Senator from West Virginia
In office January 9, 1911 – January 31, 1911
Preceded by	Stephen B. Elkins
Succeeded by	Clarence W. Watson
In office March 4, 1919 – March 4, 1925
Preceded by	Nathan Goff, Jr.
Succeeded by	Guy D. Goff
Personal details
Born	(1876-01-24)January 24, 1876 Washington, D.C.
Died	January 5, 1959(1959-01-05) (aged 82) Richmond, Virginia
Political party	Republican

Davis Elkins ( January 24, 1876 – January 5, 1959 ) was a United States Senator from West Virginia. Born in Washington, D.C., he attended the Lawrenceville School, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Harvard University. During the Spanish-American War he enlisted as a private in the First West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, becoming assistant adjutant general in 1898.

Elkins was an industrialist with interests in railroads, banking, utilities, and coal mining; he was appointed as a Republican to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Stephen B. Elkins, and served from January 9 to January 31, 1911, when a successor was elected. During the First World War he served in the United States Army in France, 1917-1918. He was then elected to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1919, to March 4, 1925; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1924. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce (Sixty-sixth Congress).

From 1936 to 1956 he was owner of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Company. Davis Elkins died in Richmond, Virginia in 1959; interment was in Maplewood Cemetery, Elkins, West Virginia.

Davis Elkins was a son of Stephen Benton Elkins and a grandson of Henry Gassaway Davis, both U.S. Senators from West Virginia. His sister Katherine Hallie "Kitty" Elkins ( Jan. 14, 1886 - Sept. 3, 1936 ) was engaged for some time to Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi ( 1873-1933 ), a cousin of the king of Italy.

References

• Davis Elkins at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2008-04-04

United States Senate
Preceded by Stephen B. Elkins	Class 2 Senator from West Virginia 1911–1911	Succeeded by Clarence W. Watson
Preceded by Nathan Goff, Jr.	Class 2 Senator from West Virginia 1919–1925	Succeeded by Guy D. Goff