Romanzo Ellis Davis (April 8, 1831 – October 31, 1908) was an American farmer, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.
He was raised and educated there, and moved to Attica in Green County, Wisconsin Territory, in 1846 with his parents.
[1] He attended the University of Wisconsin for three years, graduating in 1851,[2] and then later spent some time in business in Cole County, Missouri.
In 1869 he was elected as a Republican to the Senate's 26th District (the Dane County Towns of Berry, Black Earth, Blue Mounds, Cross Plains, Dane, Fitchburg, Maxomanie, Middleton, Montrose, Perry, Primrose, Roxbury, Springdale, Verona, Vermont and Westport).
[3] The next year, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district.