Thomas Davenport (congressman)

Thomas Davenport (died November 17, 1838) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.

Born in Halifax County, Virginia, where his parents were living by 1783, Davenport completed preparatory studies and received a license to operate as a merchant in Meadville, Virginia.

Davenport was elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through the Twenty-second Congresses and elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1835).

He chaired the Committee on Public Expenditures (Twenty-third Congress).

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