George Russell Davis (December 13, 1861 – June 13, 1933) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court from 1897 until 1905.

[1] A delegate to the 1896 Republican National Convention, Davis was also personal friends with presidential nominee William McKinley and United States Senator John Sherman.

He then sent a telegram to McKinley, who had recently been inaugurated President of the United States asking to be appointed Chief Justice for the territory.

[1] An example is found in The London, Paris, and American Bank, Limited v, Abrams, 6 Arizona 87 (1898), where Davis wrote "An examination of the mutilated, interlined, and disfigured transcript shows the evidence in support of the material allegations of the appellants' complaints to be meager, unsatisfactory, and to a considerable extent incompetent.

"[1] Another example came in Bennett v. Nichols, 9 Arizona 138 (1905), a case involving the legislatures ability to grant a 20-year tax exemption to a railroad.

[1] Davis' opinion states "But aside from this, the principle is abundantly established that, when conditions and considerations upon which a grant of exemption was based have been met, a contract right exists, which cannot be impaired by a subsequent statute of modification or repeal.

[13] In February 1909, Governor James Gillett appointed Davis to serve on the Superior Court of Los Angeles County.

[14][15] The conservative leaning Davis' attempt to win reelection to the California bench in 1910 was defeated by a progressive "good government" group known as the "Goo-goos".