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Oscar King Davis was born on January 13, 1866 in Baldwinsville, New York. He was the son of Joshua B. and Harriet (King) Davis. After the Civil War, the father for a few years published the village newspaper, but early in the eighteen seventies he moved to Kansas, and still later to Wahoo, Neb. , where he established the Independent.
Davis was sent East for his college education, graduating from Colgate University in 1888 with the degree of A. B.
His reportorial career a few years later was interrupted by graduate work at Colgate, and in 1892 he received the degree of A. M.
Desiring to be a chemical engineer, Davis obtained a job with a smelting firm in Omaha, but because of the illness of his father he soon returned home, and after his father's death in 1889 he decided to become a journalist.
Going directly to New York, he was hired as a cub reporter by Chester S. Lord, managing editor of the Sun.
His ability as a reporter was soon recognized by the Sun, which, with the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, made him a special correspondent. He was on the cruiser Charleston when Guam was captured in 1898, and his two-page article in the Sun describing the event was for years remembered as a feat of reportorial skill. His experiences both in Guam and in the Philippines, where he was present at the capture of Manila, were graphically described in Our Conquests in the Pacific, published in 1899.
A year later, while gathering news both for the Sun and Harper's Weekly during the Chinese Boxer Rebellion, he witnessed the looting of Peking and of Tientsin. Of some of his experiences in China, as the allies were moving their forces out of the country, he wrote most interestingly in a series of articles in Harper's Weekly entitled "Reporting a Cosmopolitan War" (July 27, Aug. 3, 10, 1901).
In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, he represented the New York Herald. With no more wars for the present to report, in 1907 he settled in Washington, D. C. , where he served until 1912 as local correspondent for the New York Times and the Philadelphia Public Ledger. During this period he made two unimportant excursions into the realm of fiction: At the Emperor's Wish, a Tale of the New Japan (1905) and The Storm-Birds (1910), the latter done in collaboration with Reginald Schroeder.
But his chief interest during his Washington residence was politics. A stanch Republican, he had edited with John K. Mumford in 1901 The Life of William McKinley, which contained "copious extracts from the late President's public speeches, messages to Congress, proclamations and other state papers. " In 1908 he published William Howard Taft, the Man of the Hour, a campaign biography.
During all this time he had been intimate with Theodore Roosevelt, and with the formation of the Progressive party in 1912, he became secretary and publicity chief of the Progressive National Committee, as well as director of the party headquarters in Washington. In a volume of political reminiscence entitled Released for Publication (1925), he reviewed his connections with Roosevelt from 1898 to 1918, giving what he calls the "inside political history of Theodore Roosevelt and his times. " A great admirer of Roosevelt, he regarded his friendship with the former President as one of the great experiences of his life.
A few years later he resumed his work as foreign correspondent. He spent the year 1915 in China gathering news for the Chicago Tribune, and in 1916 and 1917 he represented the New York Times in Berlin. While in Berlin, by dispelling certain illusions regarding the alleged mistreatment of Germans in America, he was in large part responsible for the release of many Americans then being held in Germany.
Davis had already developed a strong interest in economic questions, and many of the articles that he sent to the Times from Germany dealt with the economic conditions of that country during the war. These articles are said to have aroused the admiration of James A. Farrell, sponsor of the National Foreign Trade Council, with the result that Davis was asked to become secretary of the council--a post he held until the time of his death. During this period he contributed articles on economics and foreign trade not only to the Times, but to the Far Eastern Review, the Bankers Magazine, the Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, and other journals. He was a delegate from the United States to the first Pan-American Postal Congress which met at Buenos Aires in 1921, and in 1930 he asked President Hoover to recommend an appropriation of $1, 500, 000 for air-mail service to South America.
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Davis was married on April 6, 1899, to Jessie Bates Johnson of Binghamton, N. Y. , who with two children, Margaret and Oscar King, survived him.
