Moses Mitchell Davis (August 27, 1820 – May 1, 1888) was an American physician, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.
[3] He went on to win the general election and represented the northern half of Columbia County during the 1856 session.
[4] During that term in the Assembly, a massive railroad bribery scheme touched nearly every member of the Legislature.
The grudge also affected Davis' personal property for several more years, as some of his land was to be used in the railroad route.
Finally, after an engine and several cars attempted to run through the area and ended up derailed, the company was forced to pay for the land in 1860.
[1][5] Despite the railroad's efforts, Davis won election to the Wisconsin Senate in 1856 and was re-elected in 1858, representing all of Columbia County in the 1857, 1858, 1859, and 1860 legislative sessions.
While serving in his first term in the Senate, Davis also became active as a newspaper editor with the Republican partisan paper the Portage City Record, in partnership with Andrew Jackson Turner.
In 1863 he moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, to serve as trustee of lands for improvements on the Fox River.
In his political activity and writing, Davis was often found in partnership with his cousin Julius Converse "Shanghai" Chandler—a prolific and infamous Republican newspaper editor in central Wisconsin throughout the 1860s and 1870s.