Background
Davis, Samuel was born in 1774 in Bath, Massachusetts (now Maine).
United States representative politician
Davis, Samuel was born in 1774 in Bath, Massachusetts (now Maine).
Born in Bath, Maine (until 1820 a district of Massachusetts), Davis engaged in mercantile pursuits and became a shipowner in 1801. He served as overseer of Bowdoin College from 1813 to 1818 and as president of Lincoln Bank in Bath in 1813. Davis was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815).
In his private life he was a merchant in African and West Indian trade.
He died in Bath, Maine, on April 20, 1831, and was interred in Maple Grove Cemetery.
He served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1803 and 1808-1812. He was again a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1815 and 1816.