Background
Davenport, Stanley Woodward was born on July 21, 1861 in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician
Davenport, Stanley Woodward was born on July 21, 1861 in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, United States.
He was educated in the public schools of Plymouth and attended Wyoming Seminary, and graduated from the Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1884 earning a Bachelor of Arts.
He was the third born of seven children to Thomas Davenport and Mary Elizabeth Reynolds Bronson. While working in the book store, he decided to study law and later entered the office of the Honorable George West. Shonk, a relative. He studied law and was admitted to the Luzerne County Bar in 1890 and commenced practice in Plymouth in 1891.
He was elected the Register of Wills in 1884, being the only Democrat on the ticket who was not defeated, and later, he was appointed a director of the poor for the central district of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in 1893.
He later served 28 years as secretary and treasurer of the Central Poor Board. He was the register of wills of Luzerne County from 1894 to 1897.
In 1898, he was nominated by his party for Congress and Davenport was elected as a Democrat to the 56th United States Congress, serving March 4, 1899 - March 3, 1901. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination in 1900.
He resumed the practice of law in Plymouth and died in 1921, aged 60, after a prolonged illness and complications.
Services were held at his home at 108 Gaylor Avenue in Plymouth.
Member Congress, 1899-1901, 12th Pennsylvania
Married June 13, 1889, Mary Weir.