Cephas L. Davis (November 1839 – May 26, 1907) was a pastor, teacher and state legislature who served in the Virginia Senate after the Reconstruction era, from 1879 - 1880.
[1] He became a free man sometime before the end of the American Civil War and attended an educational institution before going on to teach former slaves in Maryland from 1869 to 1870.
[3] The Richmond Dispatch declared Eggleston the favorite and described Davis as a "jet-black Radical" that the other blacks would not solidly support.
[3] Senator Davis was refused service in a Richmond restaurant in January 1880 along with two friends as the owner said he kept his business "for white persons only".
[5] Mr White was knocked down twice and Davis attacked him the following day and them went on to assault the mayor Joseph Prichard.