Background
Davis, Richard Beale was born on February 5, 1845 in Hickory Ground, Virginia, United States. Son of Williams Thomas and Elizabeth Taylor Corbin (Beale) Davis.
Davis, Richard Beale was born on February 5, 1845 in Hickory Ground, Virginia, United States. Son of Williams Thomas and Elizabeth Taylor Corbin (Beale) Davis.
Bachelor of Arts, Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, 1861. Private Company East, 12th Virginia Infantry, C.S.A., 1862-1865. Bachelor of Laws, University of Virginia, 1870.
In practice at St. Petersburg, Virginia, since 1871. Member Virginia House of Delegates, 1875-1877, 1902-1904. City attorney, St. Petersburg, 1879-1881.
Assistant attorney general, Virginia, January since 1911.
Member legislative commission to revise the statutes, 1902.
Married Annie Warwick Hall, April.